[Matlisp-users] Problems with sbcl 0.9.4 osx

[Christos G. <gio...@gm...>]

Even though the subject goes straight to the matter, as a new member of the
mailing list I would firstly like to thank those who offered this extremely
useful work.

A. Brief description of the problem:
I can (load "/matlib/start.lisp") and everything works fine (except for the
help system which throws me to the debugger) until I exit lisp. If I start
lisp again, the functions are undefined and I get an error of
UNDEFINED-ALIEN-FUNCTION.

If I save-lisp-and-exit, the core is loadable but functions are still
undefined in the new core.

SIDENOTE: I can get a working Matlisp if I go to /matlisp/bin and delete the
fasls and let SBCL compile them again.


B. System Details
I have managed to install the cvs version of Matlisp as of 29-Nov-2005 on an
iBook G4 with g77 (GCC 3.4) and Xcode v2.2 (even though I am not sure that
means it uses gcc 4.0). Firstly, I had to play around a little with the
makefile as it would not compile libmatlisp.o or anything except
lazy-loader, so my manual installation is probably the reason of the
problem.
If I remember well, somewhere in the makefile was a /sw/bin which implies a
need for FINK which I have not installed.

I can still work with this messy procedure of deleting the fasls every time,
but every hint to the direction of solving this problem would be very
helpful.

Yours,
Christos Giogkarakis