Re: [Gcl-devel] Re: system, load-time-value

[Camm Maguire]

Greetings, and thanks for your efforts here!  Your work around will
indeed suffice, unpleasant as it may be.  I also do not understand why
load-time-value is needed -- when could compile-file-pathname
conceivably vary at load and compile times?

Please keep us posted with the results of your tests.

Take care,

Debian User <address@hidden> writes:

>       >       > When I tried to load common-lisp-controller.lisp,
>       >       > I found out that LOAD-TIME-VALUE doesn't work in the
>       > 
>       >       Yes, I have a near-complete implementation based on
>       >       ADDRESS and NANI as yet uncommitted pending our release
>       >       of the stable branch as 2.6.2.  We need this to fix a
>       >       literal object copying ansi error in 'compile.
>       > 
>       > Great!  It'll be needed for common-lisp-controller to work.
>       > 
> 
>       So this is required for this functionality?
> 
> Apparantly!  I looked at the one place it is used, but could
> not figure out why it is needed.
> 
> (defun load-time-value (obj) obj)
> (load "common-lisp-controller.lisp") ; or ~.o instead of ~.lisp
> 
> from top-level seems to work both from source code and compiled
> code.  Of course that is just a plain ugly hack :-) With some
> fboundp checking in the top-level is should be enough...
> 
> $ apt-get install common-lisp-controller # if you haven't already...
> $ grep -C 2 load-time-value 
> /usr/share/common-lisp/source/common-lisp-controller/common-lisp-controller.lisp
> 
> (defvar *fasl-type*
>   (load-time-value
>    (pathname-type
>     (compile-file-pathname "foo.lisp")))
> 
> Obviously it has to do with compile-file-pathname, but I still
> don't see the cause behind it.
> 
> I may have some time the forthcoming weekend to implement and
> test it.
> 
> Yours,
> 
> Dennis Decker Jensen
> 
> 
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Camm Maguire                                            address@hidden
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