On Sat, 28 Sep 2013 10:05:17 -0400, Dale Visser <dale.vis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The updated instructions vis a vis *expect* are great.

Excellent!

> I'm actually a bit
> embarrassed that I obviously skimmed the instructions rather than reading
> them all the way through.

No problem.  You represent the 98% of people who are in a hurry :-).

> 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/

Well, ugh.

I've added documentation about --without-clisp to the main instructions,
as well as emphasizing the possibility of --without-common-lisp.

> 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.

Fair enough.  But if we can point to some tips, that'd be great.

--- David A. Wheeler

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