CLISP on Haiku

[Alexandru P. <al...@gm...>]

Hi,

I tried to build CLISP on Haiku operational system (
https://www.haiku-os.org/). It is not a Linux distribution, nor *BSD and is
unrelated to Windows. I want to say, compiling CLISP on Haiku at the first
attempt was easier than I expected.

1. After reading the *DEPENDENCIES* and *INSTALL* files, I installed
necessary dependencies except *libffcall*, which does not (yet) exist in
Haiku. Of course, I will try to get in also available. Haiku has
*libffi_devel*, but I am not sure if is a proper substitution. For now, I
used *--without-ffcall* configure option.

2. Because Haiku does not have multi-user support, the user has
administrative permissions. So, I issued:
*export FORCE_UNSAFE_CONFIGURE=1*
otherwise it complains about too many permissions.

3. During configuring, it was one crash (recover-able), so I just saved
report and continued. I will ask Haiku for help. The error was in program
*conftest* (during "*checking for working re_compile pattern... *" onscreen
message).

4. After configuration I inspected *src/config.lisp* file and made the
following changes:
Because *vi* editor is not available by default, I changed:
*(defparameter *editor* "vi" "The name of the editor.")*
to:
*(defparameter *editor* "nano" "The name of the editor.")*
This is for console editor. If the GUI editor can also be considered, the
"Haiku way" would be something like:
*(defparameter *editor* "/boot/system/apps/Pe/Pe" "The name of the
editor.")* ; Pe = Programmer's Editor for source code.
or:
*(defparameter *editor* "/boot/system/apps/StyledEdit" "The name of the
editor.")* ; Default text editor of Haiku.

After that, I added just after:
*;; (setq *browser* :firefox)*
the following:
*(setq *browser* "/boot/system/apps/WebPositive")* ; Firefox is not yet
ported to Haiku (the work is ongoing), and will probably not be official
one. WebPositive is The Haiku Web Browser.

5. Building was successful and I could find *clisp* executable in *src*
folder.
- *make* - OK
- *make check-tests* - 3 / 59 tests failed: *socket.erg*, *streams.erg* and
*streamslong.erg*, maybe because of missing *libffcall*.
- *make check-recompile* - OK
- *make install* - OK
- *make distrib* - OK

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On the first try, CLISP works with Terminal application under Haiku. It
fails to connect to *Slime* or *Sly* under *Emacs*, but this is probably
the issue with Slime / Sly.

Can you please guide me how can I contribute to making CLISP available on
Haiku? For now, is there some code I can modify to not being necessary to
manually change *config.lisp* after configuration?

Thank you,
Alexandru Popa