Re: make check-exec-image failure

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

Bruno,

> * Bruno Haible <oe...@py...t> [2017-03-19 03:00:59 +0100]:
>
>> This is wrong.
>> exec images work on all platforms.
>
> "make check-exec-image" fails at least on OpenBSD/i386, OpenBSD/x86_64, and
> MirBSD.

With my latest patch too?!

> 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*)

Ken, does it fail with the hg tip?

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