>>>>> "yt" == Yoichiro Takehora <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
yt> I tried to build 19a pre2 on Slackware9.1 yt> CMU Common Lisp 18e, running on nadesiko you should try building from the latest binaries that are available instead of from the 18e release; see the snapshots directory of the CMUCL download mirrors. The reason you can't build in a single step from 18e is that the CMUCL build process is self-hosting (ie it compiles itself), and that certain changes to CMUCL require a "bootstrap" to succeed (you will find the bootstrap files in the bootfiles/18e directory in the CMUCL sources). There have been quite a few changes to CMUCL since 18e that have required bootstrapping. If it is important for you to be able conveniently to build CMUCL yourself, you might want to look at SBCL, which forked from CMUCL precisely in order to facilitate this build process. Most CMUCL users are happy to use the binaries, either the release binaries such as 18e, or the monthly "snapshot" binaries that are more recent but less tested than the release binaries. -- Eric Marsden <URL:http://www.laas.fr/~emarsden/>
