[Sbcl-help] Re: CMUCL Installation

[Hannah S. <ha...@sc...>]

[CC sbc...@li... because of the SBCL specific problem]

In article <87a...@no...>,
Daniel Barlow  <da...@te...> wrote:
>[...]

>Incidentally, the next release of SBCL should include the Alpha
>compiler backend (transplanted from CMUCL) and runtime support for
>Linux/Alpha.  SBCL will no longer be x86-only ...

Yes, but as "compensation" it seems that it doesn't work on BSD,
especially OpenBSD, anymore.

I have 0.6.11.41 running, and newer sources from the CVS fail to compile
with that host, especially in the C runtime system.

There are problems that the source uses the names "st_mtime" ...
in an own structure to map the OS specific struct stat to a common
structure, however, on OpenBSD, struct stat contains:

	...
        struct  timespec st_atimespec;  /* time of last access */
        struct  timespec st_mtimespec;  /* time of last data modification */
        struct  timespec st_ctimespec;  /* time of last file status change */
	...

and defines:

#define st_atime        st_atimespec.tv_sec
[...]
#define st_mtime        st_mtimespec.tv_sec
[...]
#define st_ctime        st_ctimespec.tv_sec

src/runtime/wrap.c declares structure members

    time_t        st_atime;       /* time of last access */
    time_t        st_mtime;       /* time of last modification */
    time_t        st_ctime;       /* time of last change */
which get expanded to
    time_t st_atimespec.tv_sec;
    time_t st_mtimespec.tv_sec;
    time_t st_ctimespec.tv_sec;
which is a syntax error.

Once, I tried to fix it and did compile the runtime however got a strange
error a bit later when compiling some Lisp file.

Perhaps some SBCL person might look into that?

Kind regards,

Hannah.