Hi all! Over the past several weeks I have been working to create a native WinXP (32 bit) build of the current gcl268pre. Up until last night I had been unsuccessful on four separate machines running WinXP either natively or under emulation (through Sun's/Oracle's VirtualBox). Building the CLtL1 variant had never been a problem.
I was finally successful after installing the build tools following my directions for preparing to build GCL on WinVista. I have tried and had success on three of the four machines that previously failed a gcl268pre-ANSI build (I haven't yet tried on the fourth machine). Paranoid as I am, I normally keep all Windows operating systems up to date with patches from Microsoft and right now I'm guessing (and it's just that, a guess) that some recent patches from Microsoft for WinXP have put code or operating characteristics from WinVista into WinXP. This may (hypothetically) account for my inability to build gcl268pre-ANSI natively on an up-to-date installation of WinXP. But even with this, I and one other user have experienced trouble getting the current *info* file package to operate inside the GCL REPL. It would always complain about broken access to the info file(s). At the very bottom of this message is the result of attempting to invoke (help 'cons) from the REPL. HOWEVER, I was successful in getting the info files to operate inside the REPL by copying info files from a several-month-old installation of GCL on another machine, into the proper directory structure and replacing the info files currently posted on the GCL project's website. The info files currently posted on the GCL project's website do not extract properly. When extracting the files, I receive an error "There are data after the end of archive" (I'm using the open source version of 7-zip to extract them on my WinXP machine). Perhaps others could confirm this for me in their installations of GCL and if we get reliable failures, we can replace the currently posted info files with my archived copy. Best, -- documentary trace of failure of (help 'cons) -- >(help 'cons) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONS [Function] (not found "dir") Error in IF [or a callee]: Cannot open the file NIL. Fast links are on: do (use-fast-links nil) for debugging Broken at SYSTEM::PRINT-DOC. Type :H for Help. 1 (Continue) Retry opening file #p"NIL". 2 (Abort) Return to top level. dbl:>> -- end -- _don ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Don Winiecki, Ed.D., Ph.D. Professor Boise State University, College of Engineering Department of Instructional & Performance Technology 1910 University Drive, Boise, Idaho 83725-2070 USA E-mail: dwinie...@boisestate.edu WWW: http://ipt.boisestate.edu Telephone: (+01) 208 426 1899 Fax: (+01) 208 426 1970 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~d _______________________________________________ Gcl-devel mailing list Gcl-devel@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gcl-devel
