[ clisp-Bugs-1106735 ] build error: string soft links in subdirectory full

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Bugs item #1106735, was opened at 2005-01-21 08:39
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Category: clisp
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Rob Hasker (rwhasker)
Assigned to: Sam Steingold (sds)
Summary: build error: string soft links in subdirectory full

Initial Comment:
Luke Gorrie <yhxr@oy...> [2004-01-13 09:28:14 +0100]
reported problems with trying to install clisp 2.32 on
a Debian system.  The issue was that the full/ directory
after a build contained "funny looking symlinks:"
 >
 >   lrwxr-xr-x    1 luke     foo            81 Jan 13
05:12 libavcall.a ->
/home/luke/src/clisp-2.32/src/base?/home/luke/src/clisp-2.32/src/base/libavcall.a
 >   lrwxr-xr-x    1 luke     foo            83 Jan 13
05:12 libcallback.a ->
/home/luke/src/clisp-2.32/src/base?/home/luke/src/clisp-2.32/src/base/libcallback.a

I had the same problem on my SuSE system and tracked
the problem to the line

absolute_dirname=`cd "$dirname" ; /bin/pwd`

in the definition of link() in clisp-link.in.  Adding
-vx to the top of clisp-link reveals that pwd is
reporting the directory twice, giving

 absolute_dirname=/usr/local/src/lisp/clisp-2.33.2/src/base
/usr/local/src/lisp/clisp-2.33.2/src/base

(The ? in Luke's output is a newline character.)  My
"fix" was to hack clisp-link.in to force
absolute_dirname to contain just one name:

absolute_dirname=`echo "$absolute_dirname" | head -1`

I'm sure there are far better solutions available, but
this works.

I thought that perhaps the problem had to do with my
putting an alias on cd (I'm an old tcsh user):

alias cd        'set prevd=$cwd;chdir \!*'

but removing the alias from my login didn't fix the
problem. 

System details:

uname -a:

Linux io 2.4.19-64GB-SMP #1 SMP Mon Oct 21 18:48:05 UTC
2002 i686 unknown

I downloaded the source on Jan 20, 2005 (11pm CST) from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/clisp/release/latest/
My version is 2.33.2.  The build was done with the
commands 

./configure
cd src
./makemake --with-dynamic-ffi    > Makefile
make config.lisp
make

(I did not make any changes to config.lisp.)
clisp --version reports:

GNU CLISP 2.33.2 (2004-06-02) (built 3315304008)
(memory 3315304110)
Software: GNU C 3.2 ANSI C program
Features:
(CLOS LOOP COMPILER CLISP ANSI-CL COMMON-LISP LISP=CL
INTERPRETER SOCKETS
 GENERIC-STREAMS LOGICAL-PATHNAMES SCREEN FFI GETTEXT
UNICODE
 BASE-CHAR=CHARACTER PC386 UNIX)
Installation directory:
/usr/local/src/lisp/clisp-2.33.2/src/
User language: ENGLISH
Machine: I686 (I686) io.uwplatt.edu [137.104.21.4]
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