Re: compiling MatLisp on FC5?

Paul,

If/when you get it to compile, execute (make-complex-matrix N) with N
some number greater than 2.  I haven't had time to investigate the
problem (nor report it), but under SLES-9 and RHE-3 (?) I get SEGV
problems.  I might suspect the same for for FC-x.

mike

At Tue, 06 Jun 2006 16:51:49 -0700,
Paul Bunyk <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hello All!
> 
> I'm wondering if anyone managed to successfully compile (and run!)
> MatLisp on FC5 (that's Fedora Core 5 for non-Linux folks :-) )? 
> 
> I'm using stock CMU Common Lisp 19c Fedora Extras release 4.fc5.
> 
> MatLisp configured/compiled just fine (all I had to change was adding
> (load "packages") in the beginning of start.lisp -- otherwise it
> complained about unknown "F2CL-LIB" package), but when I try any
> non-trivial matrix operation (such as m+, which, I think is the simplest
> one making an actual Fortran call) it gets into an infinite loop
> (breakable with ^C though). When I run it under gdb it seems to be
> getting SIGSEGVs when (unsuccessfully) trying to load a symbol in
> dl_-something. 
> 
> It worked fine for me on FC4. One of the obvious differences is that FC4
> used gcc 4.0, while FC5 uses 4.1. I've tried downgrading C compiler to
> gcc32, upgrading Fortran compiler to gfortran (failed in even more
> spectacular way!), nothing helps.
> 
> CMUCL docs mention that "There are problems running CMUCL on certain
> kernels that are built with address-space randomization techniques, such
> as certain Fedora kernels. If you run into problems, please use a
> vanilla kernel." -- I have 2.6.16-1.2111_FC5 and I *assume* that Fedora
> folks would make their CMUCL rpm work with their stock kernel -- is it
> too much to assume? :-)
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Paul Bunyk
> 
> 
> -- 
> Paul Bunyk <[email protected]>
> D-Wave: The Quantum Computing Company
> 
> 
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