[clisp-list] Build problem on Debian

[Chris H. <ha...@ve...>]

I'm running Debian Woody, kernel 2.2.25 and have just spent waaaay too
many hours on a Sunday trying to build some version, any version, of
clisp.

I need to use regexes, and the default clisp install on Debian doesn't
seem to support them, when invoked either by 'clisp' *or* 'clisp -K
full' it doesn't show up in *features*.  (BTW, the same goes for the
FreeBSD 4.9 clisp).  If I try to use one of the functions, I get an
error.

So, I downloaded the latest source, libsigsegv, etc., followed
directions, and got a SIGSEGV error during the build (something about
0x10a not in [...]).  Searched Google and got 14 results - none useful
to me at all, but I *did* notice the clisp 'help wanted' page asking for
help on this issue.  Sorry folks - that is way, _way_ over my head.
Tried building w/o libsigsegv, but just got a totally different fatal
SIGSEGV error again during the build.

'K - let's try another version.

Next I downloaded 2.29, configure, makemake, edit, etc., etc., etc.  I
got the error below, so I hit Google, the Gmane general list and a few
years of the Sourceforge mailing lists - all I found was a hint of a
related Debian problem in a January 2004 message from Luke Gorrie on the
Sourceforge list, but no resolution.  Fiddled around some more, changed
some things, rm-rf'ed, unpacked, re-configured and built a few more
times trying different things, finally tried building as root, all to no
avail.

Everytime, it is sooooo close - 'make check' works just fine, but su
over to root and 'make install' bombs (see below).

Hmmmm.  OK, so I get the Debian stable source package (now we are at
version 2.27) and start looking through diffs figuring 'hey, they got it
built somehow', because I can 'apt-get install' the
default-but-insufficient-for-my-purposes build.

Sure enough, way deep in the (rather large) Debian diffs is a reference
to Debian not handling the symbolic links in the way the Makefile seems
to expect.

To be honest, at this point, I don't spend the time to figure out
exactly what Debian did, or why - it has by now been a long day and I
just want to get to work on my regexes (I'm using guile and gawk until I
can port to clisp).  So I apply the diffs, they work fine, configure,
makemake, edit, make check.  Builds fine, as it did all the other times
for 2.29 and earlier.  But when I try to install, same *exact* error.

I must either be doing something really silly (or maybe there is
something missing from my Debian?) - surely a GNU lisp shouldn't be so
difficult to build on Debian GNU/Linux?

If it is any help, I *can* build and install the latest GCL, no problem
- I have done so several times recently.  I've also successfully built
and installed recent Python and Postgres, and a few other things - all
without a problem.

Does anybody have any suggestions or ideas, maybe a link or two?

Thanks, g'nite,
+Chris

P.S.  For some reason directories linkkit, base, full, and clisp-link do
*not* seem to exist anywhere in the build tree.

How did we get this far in the build without what appear to be the
output directories?  All I can think of is that an error somehow went
undetected/unhandled by make.


----------------( /usr/local/lib/clisp *after*
naia:~/lisp/clisp-2.27/src# ls -lR /usr/local/lib/clisp/ 
/usr/local/lib/clisp/:
total 16
drwxr-sr-x    2 root     staff        4096 May 24 01:19 base
drwxr-sr-x    2 root     staff        4096 May 24 01:19 data
drwxr-sr-x    2 root     staff        4096 May 24 01:19 full
drwxr-sr-x    2 root     staff        4096 May 24 00:33 linkkit

/usr/local/lib/clisp/base:
total 0

/usr/local/lib/clisp/data:
total 1160
-rw-r--r--    1 root     staff     1134578 May 24 01:19 UnicodeData.txt
-rw-r--r--    1 root     staff       45476 May 24 01:19 clhs.txt

/usr/local/lib/clisp/full:
total 0

/usr/local/lib/clisp/linkkit:
total 92
-rw-r--r--    1 root     staff       81913 May 24 00:33 clisp.h
-rw-r--r--    1 root     staff        1983 May 24 00:33 modules.c
-rw-r--r--    1 root     staff        1943 May 24 00:33 modules.d


----------------( 'make install' output
naia:~/lisp/clisp-2.27/src# make install
if [ ! -d /usr/local ] ; then mkdir /usr/local ; fi
if [ ! -d /usr/local ] ; then mkdir /usr/local ; fi
if [ ! -d /usr/local/lib ] ; then mkdir /usr/local/lib ; fi
if [ ! -d /usr/local/lib/clisp ] ; then mkdir /usr/local/lib/clisp ; fi
if [ ! -d /usr/local/lib/clisp/data ] ; then mkdir /usr/local/lib/clisp/data ; fi
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 data/UnicodeData.txt /usr/local/lib/clisp/data/UnicodeData.txt
/usr/bin/install -c -m 644 data/clhs.txt /usr/local/lib/clisp/data/clhs.txt
if [ ! -d /usr/local/lib/clisp/linkkit ] ; then mkdir /usr/local/lib/clisp/linkkit ; fi
(cd /usr/local/lib/clisp && rm -rf base full)
mkdir /usr/local/lib/clisp/base
mkdir /usr/local/lib/clisp/full
for f in clisp-link linkkit/modules.d linkkit/modules.c linkkit/clisp.h base/* full/*; do \
  case $f in \
    */lisp.run) /usr/bin/install -c $f /usr/local/lib/clisp/$f;; \
    *) /usr/bin/install -c -m 644 $f /usr/local/lib/clisp/$f;; \
  esac; \
done
/usr/bin/install: cannot stat `clisp-link': No such file or directory
/usr/bin/install: cannot stat `linkkit/modules.d': No such file or directory
/usr/bin/install: cannot stat `linkkit/modules.c': No such file or directory
/usr/bin/install: cannot stat `linkkit/clisp.h': No such file or directory
/usr/bin/install: cannot stat `base/*': No such file or directory
/usr/bin/install: cannot stat `full/*': No such file or directory
make: *** [install-bin] Error 1


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