Re: f2cl trouble with common block -- function make-<block name> undefined

[Raymond T. <ray...@er...>]

>>>>> "Robert" == Robert Dodier <rob...@gm...> writes:

    Robert> Hi Ray,
    Robert> GCL fails to load f2cl1.l so that's not in the running.
    >> 
    >> I haven't tried gcl with f2cl in ages.  But can gcl load the lisp
    >> file?

    Robert> (load "tmp.lisp") => There is no package with the name FORTRAN-TO-LISP.

    Robert> Maybe I'm not understanding how f2cl is supposed to work.

    Robert> I try loading "tmp.lisp" (with clisp, sbcl, or gcl) and I get a
    Robert> complaint about the package FORTRAN-TO-LISP being
    Robert> undefined. OK, maybe I'm supposed to (load "macros.l")
    Robert> and then (load "tmp.lisp"). Nope, complaints about F2CL-LIB.
    Robert> OK, I'll try loading f2cl0.l through f2cl8.l and then macros.l.
    Robert> Well, clisp is happy with that, sbcl complains a lot but
    Robert> apparently succeeds, and gcl can't get through f2cl1.l.

Ok.  It's certainly a problem that there's no file describing what to
do.  My fault.  I'll add a README file that explains some of this.

So, if you want to do a conversion, you need to load all of the files,
of course.  Use the f2cl/f2cl.system or f2cl/f2cl.asd file to load
f2cl via mk:defsys or asdf.

Once a conversion is done, you don't need to load all of f2cl.  You
basically just need f2cl0.l to define the packages needed, and
macros.l to define the stuff that f2cl-lib needs.

Ray