Re: [Fink-users] sbcl

[Alexander H. <ale...@gm...>]

Normen Mueller wrote:
> Mark J. Reed wrote:
>   
>> On Jan 23, 2008 4:13 AM, Normen MÃŒller <nor...@go...> wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Dear all,
>>>
>>> I am still waiting to get sbcl running on Mac OS X 10.5.1.
>>>     
>>>       
>> While waiting for fink to catch up, I note that MacPorts has sbcl
>> 1.0.13 working on 10.5.1:
>>
>> (0)wazowski> sbcl
>> This is SBCL 1.0.13, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
>> More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.
>>
>> SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
>> It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
>> BSD-style licenses.  See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
>> distribution for more information.
>> * (sb-ext:run-program "/usr/bin/sw_vers" nil :output t)
>> ProductName:    Mac OS X
>> ProductVersion: 10.5.1
>> BuildVersion:   9B18
>>
>> #<SB-IMPL::PROCESS :EXITED 0>
>> *
>>
>>
>> This is why I like to have both systems installed.  Used to have
>> fink's sbcl and MacPorts' clisp, now it's the other way around; after
>> the next update to either package or the OS it may swap again...
>>   
>>     
> Thanks a lot for pointing me to MacPorts!!! I will try it asap and post 
> my feedback to this thread.
>
> Cheers,
>   /nm
>   
A word of caution:  be careful when building packages in such cases.  
You can wind up with Macports packages linking to Fink libraries, and 
vice versa.  This can cause problems for you down the road when you 
change things via updates, removals, ...