Re: help on building clisp

[Vladimir T. <vtz...@gm...>]

Hey Shashank,
Thanks for interest in clisp.
> $ ./configure --with-threads=POSIX_THREADS

This is the normal way to configure clisp with threads.

> Later, the execution of `make` and `make check` commands also occurs
> successfully (with huge amount of execution steps being flushed out on the
> terminal).

`make` should build successfully clisp.
`make check` usually segfaults in multi thread builds (you were lucky)
mostly due to non thread safe hash tables.

> Can you guide me as to how I shall proceed in this regard. Also, how and
> where the CLISP hash table implementation is used, which in turn should be
> replaced by a lock-free implementation.

The hash table implementation is located in src/hashtabl.d. Hash
tables are used in both lisp and c code - to get an impression do
simple grep for: make-hash-table (and make_hash_table), gethash, etc.
I would recommend you to get common with clisp internals -
http://clisp.org/impnotes/internals.html is a good start.

Vlad