Re: [clisp-list] Building modules is too hard

[Aleksej S. <as...@in...>]

Sam Steingold <sd...@gn...> writes:

> Aleksej Saushev wrote:
>> 
>> 1. I have installed CLISP in pretty bare configuration (readline, FFI, iconv).
>> 2. I have installed something large, which uses that CLISP (Maxima or FriCAS).
>> 3. I want to try Postgres, thus I install Postgres server and client.
>> 4. Now I need CLISP module to work with Postgres, but I don't want to
>> rebuild something large I installed previously (see 2).
>
> why do you need to rebuild [2]?
> you do not rebuild emacs or vim when you upgrade gcc, do you?
>
>> I cannot "tar zxf clisp-2.47.tar.gz && cd .../modules/postgresql
>>  && ./configure && make && make install", because it wants modprep.fas,
>> which isn't built this way.
>
> huh?! this is wrong.
> postgresql does not use modprep.

I tried gdbm module to simplify handling, it does use.
This makes things even more complex, modules are not built in uniform way,
gdbm does use modprep.fas, which isn't built.

>> It is pretty hard to grok that clisp-link machinery, which is unclear
>> how to make it behave well with package management system, even if I
>> simplify things: let's assume I want to install it under another prefix,
>> than my installed CLISP.
>> 
>> It would be nice, if documentation contained some (even simplistic!)
>> description what is to be done to install separatly built module.
>> Something like test case, that this machinery works.
>
> I agree that clisp could benefit from a better documented clisp-link.
> It would be nice if you documented your experiences - this would be a good 
> start for the doc.
>
> Alas, I do not quite understand what you are doing.
>
> do you still have your clisp build directory?

Of course, no.

> are you trying to use the existing system-wide installation?

Yes. Let's assume it comes pre-installed from OS vendor binaries.

> in both cases, building a module and creating a linking set with it is 
> extensively documented in
> http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/modules.html#mod-overview
> with an example in
> http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/modules.html#mod-set-example
> and more in http://clisp.cons.org/impnotes/dffi.html
>
> Did you look there?

I did, and this didn't make it more clear to me (unfortunatly).
I'll try harder a bit later.


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