Re: [Sbcl-devel] Error running 1.2.5 with custom build options

[Jeff C. <je...@jk...>]

I should probably have mentioned I'm running Ubuntu 14.04 on a 64-bit 
system.
--Jeff

On 11/08/2014 06:38 PM, Jeff Cunningham wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I was playing around today with commonqt. There is a note on their 
> page about SBCL on linux having problems with call-backs and that it 
> needs to be built with custom options set. Here's their note:
>
>
>         Callbacks from threads
>
> Callbacks from foreign threads do not work on all implementations. One 
> particular widget that performs such callbacks is QFileDialog. Clozure 
> CL is known to work with them out of the box. SBCL not on Windows 
> requires some non-default build options: sb-safepoint, sb-thruption, 
> sb-wtimer. Which can be enabled by putting the following into the 
> customize-target-features.lisp file in the base source directory and 
> rebuilding SBCL.
>
>     (lambda (features)
>        (flet ((enable (x)
>                 (pushnew x features))
>               (disable (x)
>                 (setf features (remove x features))))
>          (enable :sb-thread)
>          (enable :sb-safepoint)
>          (enable :sb-thruption)
>          (enable :sb-wtimer)))
>            
>
> So I tried building 1.2.4 with these build options, and then when that 
> wouldn't run, I tried with a fresh copy of 1.2.5. In either case, when 
> I try to run the generated SBCL image it drops into ldb like so:
>
>     $ sh run-sbcl.sh
>     (running SBCL from: .)
>     This is SBCL 1.2.4, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
>     More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.
>
>     SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
>     It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
>     BSD-style licenses.  See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
>     distribution for more information.
>     fatal error encountered in SBCL pid 26072(tid 140737353942848):
>     Unhandled SIGILL.
>
>     Welcome to LDB, a low-level debugger for the Lisp runtime environment.
>
>     ldb>
>
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> Much obliged,
> --Jeff Cunningham
>