dynamic loading for Alpha (was Re: [Sbcl-devel] Re: pathname pain)

[William H. N. <wil...@ai...>]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2001 at 08:06:15PM +0100, Daniel Barlow wrote:
> Daniel Barlow <da...@te...> writes:
> 
> > * (probe-file "front-page.lisp")
> > NIL
> > 
> > * (probe-file (merge-pathnames "front-page.lisp"))
> > #P"/home/dan/src/stargreen/istr/front-page.lisp"
> 
> The easy fix for these, I think, is to add a merge-pathnames call to
> physicalize-pathname.   
> 
> Bill, do you have my (now rather old) path to make dynamic loading
> work on Alpha?  I'm not agitating to have it merged yesterday, but
> I've heard nothing about it one way or the other and so I wonder if it
> missed you altogether.  It breaks on x86, I found recently: should
> ``#ifdef __i386__'' in ldso-stubs.S instead of `#define x86''

Yes, it's in my mail file (May 11), but for some reason I'd completely
overlooked it. I don't remember reading it, and it certainly never
made it onto my to-do list. I'm sorry about that.

It's on my to-do list now. It won't get merged yesterday, since I
managed to wander into so much trouble both finding the GC problem and
putting FASL-related stuff into a package, and since there are still
two big patches from MNA that I haven't dealt with. Hopefully by this
weekend, though.

I should probably find some way of making at least part of my to-do
list visible to people who are waiting patiently for things to get
done. I didn't really like the SourceForge web interface last time I
looked. Maybe I'll start appending my still-need-to-do-these list to
my look-I-did-one-of-them messages to the mailing list.

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