Re: make check-exec-image failure

[Bruno H. <br...@cl...>]

Sam,

> This is wrong.
> exec images work on all platforms.

"make check-exec-image" fails at least on OpenBSD/i386, OpenBSD/x86_64, and
MirBSD.

And probably on Cygwin as well, otherwise Ken Brown would not have added
this patch to the Cygwin port of clisp:

# HG changeset patch
# User Ken Brown <kb...@co...>
# Date 1429042817 14400
#      Tue Apr 14 16:20:17 2015 -0400
# Node ID 5383b0dea9eef525202949979d621e9f84a91fec
# Parent  abc756d38a96bd7959869ca47d66590df7c19baf
Don't allow saving executable memory images on Cygwin

diff -r abc756d38a96 -r 5383b0dea9ee src/savemem.lisp
--- a/src/savemem.lisp	Sat Mar 14 14:45:32 2015 -0400
+++ b/src/savemem.lisp	Tue Apr 14 16:20:17 2015 -0400
@@ -38,6 +38,9 @@
                     ((:script *script*) (null init-function))
                     keep-global-handlers (start-package *package*)
                     (locked-packages *system-package-list*) executable)
+  (if executable
+      (error
+       "Sorry, this build does not support saving executable memory images"))
   (let* ((old-driver *driver*) old-global-handlers file-size
          (*package* (sys::%find-package start-package))
          (active-restarts *active-restarts*)


Bruno