>>>>> "wjm" == MCENANEY WILLIAM J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

  wjm> Today, after I installed cmucl-18e on my Sunblade 100
  wjm> workstation, I wrote a procedure that would reverse a list.
  wjm> When I ran that procedure, some program said something like
  wjm> this, "inri.lisp no longer exists." I think I followed the
  wjm> installation instructions to the letter. Did I make a mistake?

the most likely explanation for this that I can think of is caused by
something like this:

,----
| * (sqrt 0 0)
| Invalid number of arguments: 2
|    [Condition of type KERNEL:SIMPLE-PROGRAM-ERROR]
| Restarts:
|   0: [ABORT] Return to Top-Level.
| Debug  (type H for help)
| 
| (SQRT 2 0)[:EXTERNAL]
| Source: Error finding source: 
| Error in function DEBUG::GET-FILE-TOP-LEVEL-FORM:  Source file no longer exists:
|   target:code/irrat.lisp.
| 0] 
`----

The last few lines here are complaining that the file irrat.lisp,
which is a part of CMUCL's source code, cannot be found on your
system. (You probably don't care, but CMUCL is a little too verbose
sometimes.)

To avoid the warning, you can install the CMUCL source code somewhere
on your system, and edit your system's site-init.lisp file (typically
installed as /usr/local/lib/cmucl/lib/site-init.lisp). Towards the end
of that file, there is a commented form that sets the target:
search-list to point to the source code. This is mentioned obliquely
at the very end of the installation instructions.
  
-- 
Eric Marsden                          <URL:http://www.laas.fr/~emarsden/>

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