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CLisp win installer

[Gabriel D. R. <gd...@in...>]

Hi,

Apparently, there is a bug in the clisp win installer (I just tried the version
on the website for CLisp-2.49-something-big) that overwrites the
%Path% variable with a shorter version of previous value.  That is
very uncool.

-- Gaby

Re: CLisp win installer

[Elliott S. <ell...@gm...>]

It's been fixed in Mercurial for more than a month now, and won't happen in
new CLISP releases.

The problem is that the installer used a fixed string size of 1024, causing
users with PATH values larger than 1024 to clobbered.

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 4:28 PM, Gabriel Dos Reis <
gd...@in...> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Apparently, there is a bug in the clisp win installer (I just tried the
> version
> on the website for CLisp-2.49-something-big) that overwrites the
> %Path% variable with a shorter version of previous value.  That is
> very uncool.
>
> -- Gaby
>
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Re: CLisp win installer

[Gabriel D. R. <gd...@in...>]

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 6:33 PM, Elliott Slaughter
<ell...@gm...> wrote:
> It's been fixed in Mercurial for more than a month now, and won't happen in
> new CLISP releases.
> The problem is that the installer used a fixed string size of 1024, causing
> users with PATH values larger than 1024 to clobbered.

OK.  Thanks.

I tried to build CLisp from source using mys/mingw64 but
unsuccessful (notably libsigsev won't build).  So I decided
to try the pre-built binary, only to get mystified by the installer.
Well, I suspect I would wait till I figure a way to build Clisp
from source :-/

Re: CLisp win installer

[Sam S. <sd...@gn...>]

> * Gabriel Dos Reis <tq...@va...> [2011-06-04 18:50:19 -0500]:
>
> I tried to build CLisp from source using mys/mingw64 but
> unsuccessful (notably libsigsev won't build).

please report this to the libsigsev maintainers!

> Well, I suspect I would wait till I figure a way to build Clisp
> from source :-/

we do need someone to build clisp on windows regularly (preferably
nightly) to prevent bit rot.
please persevere!

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