Re: Trying to use Matlisp on CMUCL

Seems like a makefile problem.  You should not be getting
static libraries.  The latest cvs version is configured to
get dynamic libraries which should produce a libmatlisp.so 
file.  Are you sure you got the latest 'cvs' version or did you
get matlisp 1.0b?

Tunc

rif wrote:
> 
> Hello.
> 
> I am a relative newbie to LISP, so I may not know some things which
> are obivous, but I'm having some trouble getting Matlisp installed under
> CMUCL.
> 
> I just downloaded the latest version from the CVS repository.  After
> uncommenting most of the makefile (why is everything in the main makefile
> commented by default?), it builds a bunch of .o files, after which I get
> the following errors:
> 
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/rif/Software/matlisp'
> /usr/bin/lisp -eval '(progn (load "start.lisp"))'
> ; Loading #p"/home/rif/Software/matlisp/start.lisp".
> Converted SETLOGICALROOT.
> Converted GETLOGICALROOT.
> Converted DEFLOGICALPATH.
> ;; Loading #p"/home/rif/Software/matlisp/system.dcl".
> ;; Loading #p"/home/rif/Software/matlisp/config.lisp".
> 
> Error in function EXTENSIONS:LOAD-FOREIGN:  /usr/bin/ld failed:
> /usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lmatlisp
> 
> Restarts:
>   0: [CONTINUE] Return NIL from load of "start.lisp".
>   1: [ABORT   ] Skip remaining initializations.
> 
> Debug  (type H for help)
> 
> (EXTENSIONS:LOAD-FOREIGN "matlisp:lib;lazy-loader.o"
>                          :LIBRARIES
>                          ("-L/home/rif/Software/matlisp/lib"
>                           "-R/home/rif/Software/matlisp/lib" "-lmatlisp"
>                           "-L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/3.0.4"
>                           "-L/usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/3.0.4/../../.." ...)
>                          :BASE-FILE
>                          ...)
> Source: Error finding source:
> Error in function DEBUG::GET-FILE-TOP-LEVEL-FORM:  Source file no longer exists:  target:code/foreign.lisp.
> 0]
> 
> BTW, I am running a new Debian woody installation, with cmu installed
> from the debian package, and I am using gcc 3.0.4 (browing the mailing
> list indicated there were some problems with gcc 2.95, so I switched
> versions).
> 
> I get a library in the toplevel directory of matlisp called static.a.
> Perusal of the makefile indicates that one target of make distclean is
> lib/libmatlispstatic.a.  In matlisp.mk, the static target makes a
> library called $(LIB)static.a, but there's nothing in matlisp.mk that
> can set $(LIB).  I assume this is somehow related to the problem,
> although I've tried renaming the static.a library to some other things
> to no avail.
> 
> Any help you can offer is appreciated.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> rif
> 
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