[Sbcl-devel] 0.6.4 and FreeBSD

[Raymond A. W. <rw...@c2...>]

	I've just applied my patches for FreeBSD 4.0 to SBCL-0.6.4. The
patches applied cleanly, and I got a working sbcl on my first compile
attempt. I can live with that :-)

	I saw an error message from sbcl when I tried
loading/compiling a lisp file from the background menu in XEmacs (with
ilisp active). The error message was about the symbol UNIX::EINTR not
being defined, and a look at unix.lisp revals that the definition for
this  EINTR is commented out (along with a few others).

	Given the fact that the definitions in unix.lisp are difficult
to get right, I have started thinking about generating this file
automatically (or at least semi-automatically), using a program to
read through header files and generate the appropriate lisp
definitions. Any thoughts on this?

	I'd like to do this in Lisp and have fetched ZEBU (a
parser generator) to see if it can be used. I've also fetched and
patched mk::defsystem from clocc.sourceforge.net and made some trivial
changes to it so that it appears to work with sbcl (it compiles and
loads, and I have used it to compile and load ZEBU). [I got the system
definitions for SBCL from Rudolf Schlatte; the ones that come with the
ZEBU distribution are incompatible with mk:defsystem.]

	mk:defsystem has quite a few feature-tests on :cltl2, which is
predefined for CMUCL. Should this also be put on the features-list for
SBCL, or would it be better to change defsystem.lisp to use :ansi-cl
or :sbcl directly?

	//Raymond.

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