Re: configure --build fails check stage

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

> * In message <Pin...@as...>
> * On the subject of "Re: configure --build fails check stage"
> * Sent on Sat, 17 May 2003 15:48:04 -0700 (PDT)
> * Honorable Kaz Kylheku <ka...@as...> writes:
>
> Here is the simplest of all possible ways to address this.
> 
> diff -u clisp/src/init.lisp:1.8 clisp/src/init.lisp:1.8.4.1
> --- clisp/src/init.lisp:1.8	Mon May  5 22:50:21 2003
> +++ clisp/src/init.lisp	Sat May 17 16:44:20 2003
> @@ -1523,12 +1523,20 @@
>  
>  (PROGN
>  
> -;; The BACKQUOTE macro just calls the backquote expander on its argument.
> +;; The BACKQUOTE macro works like this. If the form has two elements,
> +;; then it calls the backquote expander on the second element. The
> +;; expansion is cached by destructively adding it as a third element
> +;; to the form. If the form to be expanded has three elements, then
> +;; it's assumed that the third element is the cached expansion,
> +;; which is just retrieved.
>  (sys::%putd 'sys::backquote
>    (sys::make-macro
>      (function sys::backquote (lambda (form env)
>        (declare (ignore env))
> -      (sys::bq-expand (second form))))))
> +      (if (cddr form)
> +        (third form)
> +        (third (nconc form 
> +                      (list (sys::bq-expand (second form))))))))))
>  
>  ;; The BQ-NCONC form is a marker used in the backquote-generated code.
>  ;; It tells the optimizer that the enclosed forms may be combined with

interesting.
please look at compiler.fas: you will find a lot of read labels
(like #123=(COMMON-LISP::MASK-FIELD . SYSTEM::C-MASK-FIELD))
which are never referenced.
could you please look at why this happens?

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