Re: CLISP on Haiku

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

Alexandru Popa wrote on 2024-11-04:
> 1. **features** lists *:UNIX* and *:OS-UNIX*, but does not list *:HAIKU* /
> *:OS-HAIKU*.

In my builds, the last element of *features* is :HAIKU.
How come that it's not the same in your builds?
It comes from spvw.d line 1993.

> 2. I see CLISP on Haiku does not support threading?

CLISP does not support threading. There is a configure option to enable it,
but it's experimental and the resulting builds are not reliable.

> I managed to compile the following CLISP modules (not tried them except
> asdf):
> - *asdf*,
> - *berkeley-db*,
> - *clx/mit-clx* (I doubt this one is actually useful in Haiku),
Yes, this module is useless without an X11 server to connect to.

> - *editor*,
> - *gdbm*,
> - *libsvm*,
> - *pcre*,
> - *postgresql*,
> - *queens*,
> - *rawsock*,
> - *zlib*.

> One more package, *pari* is almost buildable. It depends on *pari.desc*
> file containing information about pari functions, but this file is not more
> delivered with pari.

Not worth bothering. The people in the field use SAGE nowadays when they want
to integrate different computer-algebra systems.

Bruno