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

[Bill Page]

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.

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address@hidden axiom.build-improvements]$ diff -u 
src/boot/Makefile.pamp
hlet.orig src/boot/Makefile.pamphlet.new
--- src/boot/Makefile.pamphlet.orig     2007-02-14 09:53:36.000000000 -0600
+++ src/boot/Makefile.pamphlet.new      2007-02-14 09:55:32.000000000 -0600
@@ -1341,10 +1341,10 @@
 and saving the resulting image back on disk.
 <<build bootsys>>=
 bootsys$(EXEEXT): $(OBJECTS)
-       $(LOADSYS) -batch -eval \
+       echo \
                '(progn (mapcar (function (lambda (x) (load x))) \
                        (quote ($(patsubst %, "%", $(OBJECTS))))) \
-                       (system::save-system "$@"))'
+                       (system::save-system "$@"))' | $(LOADSYS
 @

 The make rule [[bootsys]] is executed through a recursive call to [[$(MAKE)]]

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Regards,
Bill Page.