[Sbcl-devel] Re: Stupid question

[Fernando D. M. M. <mat...@ac...>]

William Harold Newman wrote:

> Was the idea to use CLISP to bootstrap SBCL, then to use SBCL to
> bootstrap CMU CL? Are you [Fernando] trying to go from some platform
> which only supports CLISP to one which supports CMU CL?

The available CMUCL binary core dumps on IRIX 6.5 . I haven't seen
an SBCL binary for this platform either, so assuming the MIPS backend
is still there, I hope the SBCL runtime can still be made to run on it
w/o requiring a heroic effort.

> I have not done it, but it should be possible to cross-compile SBCL on
> a platform which only supports a C compiler, by doing the Common Lisp
> cross-compilation steps on some other platform which does support
> Common Lisp. As far as I can see, nothing very tricky is involved,
> basically going through the make.sh script, thinking about each step,
> and deciding which platform it should be done on and which files need
> to be copied between platforms between steps. (And even the "which
> files" question could probably be avoided by using brute force, and
> simply copying the entire directory between machines between steps.)

I only have IRIX.



I'm still interested in getting SBCL working, even if CMUCL requires
itself, and not some "good or close enough" lisp. Now, the two things I
would
require to do w/o CMUCL for the time being would be the emacs
connectivity, and COMPILER-LET.

Thanks,

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