clisp-devel

Issues with CLISP on Debian (Jessie) and Arch

[Barry F. <bar...@ac...>]

The CLISP package has been withdrawn due to pending issues in Debian
test for some time.  Is anyone working on getting it back.

I found the Arch repository version doesn't supports '(require "linux")'.

I built it from scratch on Arch GNU/Linux x86_64.  At a run time, it
gave me on the '(require "linux")' a message that 'rpl_ioctl' was not
found during the dynamic load.  This seems to be a result of the code in
src/gllib/sys_ioctl.in.h at line 47:

#if @GNULIB_IOCTL@
# if @REPLACE_IOCTL@
#  if !(defined __cplusplus && defined GNULIB_NAMESPACE)
#   undef ioctl
#   define ioctl rpl_ioctl
#  endif

and both @GNULIB_IOCTL@ and @REPLACE_IOCTL@ being set to 1.  I assume
the matching ioctl.c was included in the link, but I didn't see a reason
why the normal ioctl should not be used.

When I disabled that code, the linux plugin seemed to work fine.

--
Barry Fishman

Re: Issues with CLISP on Debian (Jessie) and Arch

[Jerry J. <log...@gm...>]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Barry Fishman <bar...@ac...> wrote:
> I found the Arch repository version doesn't supports '(require "linux")'.

Ah, good find.  I maintain the clisp package for Fedora Linux, and it
looks like we have the same problem.  The trouble is that the linker
is trying to take only what it thinks it needs from libgnu.a, so you
have to force the issue.  I think this should do the trick:

sed -i 's/\(${GLLIB_A}\) \(${LIBS}\)/-Wl,--whole-archive \1
-Wl,--no-whole-archive \2/' src/makemake.in

> When I disabled that code, the linux plugin seemed to work fine.

That may lead to trouble later, as the second argument to ioctl
differs in both size and signedness between what clisp expects and
glibc provides.
-- 
Jerry James
http://www.jamezone.org/

Re: Issues with CLISP on Debian (Jessie) and Arch

[Blake M. <bl...@mc...>]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Barry Fishman <bar...@ac...> wrote:

> The CLISP package has been withdrawn due to pending issues in Debian
> test for some time.


Withdrawn from where?  Debian?  Arch?  Both?

Thanks.

Blake

Re: Issues with CLISP on Debian (Jessie) and Arch

[Barry F. <bar...@ac...>]

On 2015-04-09 10:02:28 -0500, Blake McBride wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 9:53 AM, Barry Fishman <bar...@ac...> wrote:
>
>> The CLISP package has been withdrawn due to pending issues in Debian
>> test for some time.
>
>
> Withdrawn from where?  Debian?  Arch?  Both?

It has been removed from Debian testing (Jessie) since August 2014.

https://packages.qa.debian.org/c/clisp.html

Arch is just missing any dynamic modules.  I have been using my own
build, so I am not sure if it ever did.  When a Arch library
got updated, I needed to rebuild CLISP, and I noticed the issue, and
re-looked at its status on other platforms.

Since Jessie is still unrelease, it might not have been considered a
priority.  However, after all this time, and the lack of activity in the
repository since April 2013 (in spite of bugs in it bugtracking system),
I am starting to worry if CLISP is currently maintained.

I currently have two build problems:

  1) modules/binding/glibc/linux.lisp: The resulting linux.c file triggers:
 #error "never use bits/ipctypes.h" directly.  include <sys/ipc.h>  instead.
     I replaced bits/ipctypes.h with sys/ipc.h and the compile worked.
  2) src/makemake.in:  The missing library you fixed.

Since I only have non LTS linux systems, I don't know if these changes
break some other platform.  They seem to work for me.

--
Barry Fishman