Re: [Matlisp-users] Configuration failure on Linux/SBCL

[Marco A. <ma...@cs...>]

On Wednesday, May 26, 2004, at 00:48 America/New_York, Robert Sedgewick 
wrote:

> On May 26, 2004, at 12:05 AM, si...@EE... wrote:
>
>> A while back I had tried to compile matlisp
>> on linux and sbcl.  I went the defsystem way
>> and had no problems.  So perhaps this is indeed something
>> to look into.  I'm sure it's something simple.
>
> Yeah, I had that working at one point too.  I think the sbcl 
> developers have made their handling
> logical pathnames stricter recently.  I bet you are right and it is 
> some simple 1 line change somewhere.

There has been a very recent change in MK:DEFSYSTEM w.r.t. logical 
pathnames and Matlisp.  You should not use the Matlisp included version 
but use instead the latest release from the CLOCC.

>> BTW, what is 'asdf'?
>
> Its a competitor to defsystem.  Claimed to be more modern/extendable.  
> It is used by debian to load lisp packages for different 
> implementations.
>
> I like it because it comes built in to sbcl so only "(require 
> :foo-library)" is needed to load a library and because it can be 
> taught to handle fortran files.

MK:DEFSYSTEM handles Fortran files.  Also, REQUIRE is deprecated in the 
ANSI Spec.

Cheers

Marco
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