Re: [Sbcl-devel] First cut of SPARC/Solaris patch

[Christophe R. <cs...@ca...>]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 04:43:37PM -0500, Nathan Froyd wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 20:31, Christophe Rhodes wrote:
> > Oh, well. On the plus side, my solaris build seems to pass as many tests
> > as the linux one did (all but irrat.lisp), though I did have to run the
> > foreign one by hand. Oh, yes -- I've only tested this build process with
> > GNU cc, as and ld -- it would surprise me quite a lot if it worked
> > flawlessly first time with the Sun toolchain. Let me know, though :)
> 
> I can confirm that the Sun toolchain is not effective in compiling the
> runtime. :)

Heh. Ideally, of course, we'd want to support building under the Sun
toolchain if that's feasible with not too much pain -- I don't have
access to them, though...

> I am also curious why the build instructions on sbcl-internals suggest
> running make-config.sh on the host, when in the very next step the
> target's local-target-features.lisp-expr is copied over.  Most
> peculiar...

make-config also sets up some symlinks for building the lisp
cross-compiler (it creates src/assembly/target and src/compiler/target
links pointing at the relevant architecture-specific files, as well as
creating local-target-features; the local-target-features from the host
make-config stage will have the wrong OS feature in it -- this is
probably a FIXME :-).

> I will report back my findings once I get the GNU toolchain installed on
> the Sun machines here.

Great, thanks :-)

I shall be without connectivity for a week or so over Easter (aah,
holidays) -- I'm taking my laptop but I don't expect to get vast amounts
of SBCL development done; perhaps the incremental improvement of the
type system that I've been thinking about (I know that the proper
solution is to rework it in terms of CLOS, but I think that there's
value in an interim solution if only because it gives the refactorer
something to aim for :-)

Cheers,

Christophe
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