Re: [Axiom-developer] build-improvements without external noweb: is it supposed to work?

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Wed, 14 Feb 2007, Bill Page wrote:

| Quoting "Andrey G. Grozin" <address@hidden>:
|
| >
| > I've installed noweb and did
| >
| > ./configure --prefix=/usr --infodir=/usr/share/info \
| > --mandir=/usr/share/man --without-gcl
| >
| > (because my external gcl is ansi), then make. After some time, I've got
| >
| > ./../..//build/i686-pc-linux/bin/lisp -batch -eval \
| >                  '(progn (mapcar (function (lambda (x) (load x))) \
| >                          (quote ( "boothdr.o"  "exports.o"  "npextras.o"
| > "stage0/ptyout.o"  "stage0/btincl2.o"  "stage0/btscan2.o"
| > "stage0/typrops.o"  "stage0/btpile2.o"  "stage0/typars.o"
| > "stage0/tytree1.o"))) \
| >                          (system::save-system "bootsys"))'
| >
| > Error: The variable |
| > | is unbound.
| > Fast links are on: do (si::use-fast-links nil) for debugging
| > Error signalled by PROGN.
| > Broken at MAPCAR.  Type :H for Help.
| >>>
| >
| > What should I do next?
| >
|
| Here is a patch that I use to solve this problem. It seems that at least
| on some platforms, i.e. combinations of shell and/or make, gcl cannot
| process the '-batch -eval' arguments in the the way one would expect.

Yes.  More curious is that Jacob Smith ran into similar problem on a
Debina based system only for some of the "-batch -eval" things.

:-(

Bill, please could you check in your patch?

Thanks,

-- Gaby