Re: Branch Version_2_7_0pre

"Kirill A. Korinsky" <[email protected]> Thu, 21 Dec 2023 16:11:55 +0100
Newsgroups	gmane.lisp.gcl.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>
sure, let me try to build the last master branch without any additional patches.

If it crashes, or need some additional patches, I let you know.

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wbr, Kirill

> On 21. Dec 2023, at 16:04, Camm Maguire <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Greetings, and thanks for your feedback!
> 
> The first and third are going in now.  The second appears as a cover for
> some deeper unresolved issue.  In particular, the last hunk tries to
> avoid alloca corruption on vfork, but I do not see any alloca in the
> call chain of this macro.  vfork was an essential performance
> enhancement over fork when introduced.  Perhaps we could debug these
> issues further?
> 
> Take care,
> 
> "Kirill A. Korinsky" <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> Thanks for a good news!
>> 
>> I'm a maintainer all lisp ports at MacPorts (~200 the most popular packages I guess) and as soon as ASDF is enabled, I may include GCL in my test cycle.
>> 
>> With this test cycles I've already discovered dozen of issues in different lisp packages, and a few issues in ECL and BoehmGC ;)
>> 
>> Thus, as help with the next release I may offer to upgrade GCL port inside MacPorts and builds across a lot of different versions. Some MacPorts users has access to PowerPC hardware and may test it here as well.
>> 
>> To make my life as maintainer a bit easy, may I ask you to merge a few patches into HEAD?
>> - https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/lang/gcl/files/dont-override-CC-or-MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET.patch
>> - https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/lang/gcl/files/fix-memory-corruption-on-macOS.patch
>> - https://github.com/macports/macports-ports/blob/master/lang/gcl/files/old-macOS.patch
> 
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> Camm Maguire			     		    [email protected]
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