David:
The updated instructions vis a vis *expect* are great. I'm actually a bit
embarrassed that I obviously skimmed the instructions rather than reading
them all the way through. The clisp installation issue on CentOS appears to
be specific to CentOS 6.x. It turned out that my system out of the box
already had RepoForge included. However, the clisp package is only
available up to CentOS 5.x: http://pkgs.repoforge.org/clisp/
I tried again to build clisp from a release tarball, following instructions
and having problems much the same as the questioner on this StackOverflow
page (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/130636/how-to-compile-clisp-2-46,
replace clisp version with 2.4 and libsigsegv version with 2.9). Since 'yum
install libsigsegv' on my system provides v2.7 by default, I might try
using that version and going with an older tarball version of clisp, or
going straight to the clisp source control, as the winning answer suggests.
Seriously, though, I think this is *really* an issue with installing clisp
on CentOS 6 and/or building from the clisp source tarballs, rather than
something you should have to worry about for your release.
Best regards,
Dale
On Fri, Sep 27, 2013 at 6:27 PM, David A. Wheeler <dwhee...@dwheeler.com>wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Sep 2013 13:50:32 -0400, Dale Visser <dale.vis...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > I'm forwarding an earlier message to David below. He correctly diagnosed
> > the issue as needing a package named "expect" to be installed.
>
> The instructions did mention "expect", but obviously they weren't
> clear enough. I've updated [Install-howto] to be MUCH more direct about
> that:
> http://sourceforge.net/p/readable/wiki/Install-howto/
>
> I'll also modify the configure script so that it detects, and warns,
> if expect isn't available.
>
> This is *exactly* the kind of feedback/testing I was hoping for.
> Thanks very much!
>
> > Once I did
> > that, I could run the curly-guile script just fine, evaluating {2 + 3} to
> > 5. On CentOS, I used the --without-clisp option due to issues I hit.
>
> Excellent!! That's progress.
>
> > 1. It appears that libsigsegv and clisp both have to be installed
> > manually on CentOS 6.4. I never even pursued this to the stage of
> trying to
> > get ASDF installed. However, Guile was easy to get going.
>
> Hmm. You should only need libsigsegv if you're compiling clisp itself.
> I presume that's what you're doing?
>
> My hope would be that clisp has good directions for building and
> installing clisp.
> If that's not the case... then would you be willing to write directions on
> how to
> build/install clisp for CentOS/RHEL? We can stick that into a subsection,
> for those other poor people stuck in that situation :-).
>
> You can configure CentOS and RHEL to add additional repositories.
> E.G., you could add RepoForge (formerly RPMForge). I believe that has
> clisp:
> http://repoforge.org/use/
> That would probably be easier than compiling it yourself.
>
> > 2. With little extra diligence on my part following the configuration
> > instructions in the clisp section of installation HOWTO, I got
> readable
> > running in clisp. Again Guile was easy to get going. I *did* notice in
> > the clisp REPL, I had to hit enter a second time before a one-liner
> > expression would print the result. Maybe this is a clisp thing...I'm
> not
> > familiar with it.
>
> If you're running "sweet-clisp", that'd be correct behavior.
> A sweet-expression reader will keep reading until it sees a blank line
> (the blank line is the terminator). Otherwise, it has no way of knowing
> if the
> next line will have some indented children or not.
>
> > 3. The "expect" dependency should probably be added to the install
> > documentation somewhere. My earlier success months ago with another
> Linux
> > version was probably just due to me being smarter that day and
> successfully
> > figuring out to look for the expect package.
>
> How's this?:
> http://sourceforge.net/p/readable/wiki/Install-howto/
>
>
> --- David A. Wheeler
>
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