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Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] ANSI test Windows OPEN.* failures
From: |
Camm Maguire |
Subject: |
Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] ANSI test Windows OPEN.* failures |
Date: |
29 Nov 2004 20:25:01 -0500 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 |
Greetings!
"Mike Thomas" <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi Camm.
>
> | I see exactly the same thing you report below in Linux.
> |
> | cell-error-name might still just be a placeholder symbol. See
> | unixport/ansi_cl.lisp.
> |
> | error system still needs lots of work, but this should not be your
> | problem at present, unless I misunderstand again!
> |
> | Please keep us posted.
>
> These were indeed fruitful comments.
>
> I decided last night to assume that the GCL error handling bugs are the same
> on Linux as on Windows and that the real problem to solve in building Axiom
> was not the error handling but the root cause of the error.
>
> It turned out that the Spad compiler was unable to create a new file if the
> file's proposed directory did not exist. I solved this with
> "ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST" in the function "get-io-index-stream" in
> "src/interpreter/nlib.lisp.pamphlet" and when I left for work this morning
> the spad compiler was happily doing algebra in the LAYER0COPY target in the
> Makefile.
>
> Why the Linux version of:
>
> (open index-file :direction :io :if-exists :overwrite
> :if-does-not-exist :create)
>
> apparently builds the directory automatically I must yet discover, but now
> that I know where the error is, that should not be a problem.
>
Wonderful news, Mike! You da man! Please let me know if discovering
this error poses any problems.
> I was using CVS GCL to build Axiom.
>
An even better data point. But in general, I'd like to try to avoid
depending on CVS head for building other apps until release. We will
draw quite a few distracting bug reports that way, I think.
Take care,
> Cheers
>
> Mike Thomas.
>
>
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- [Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] ANSI test Windows OPEN.* failures, Mike Thomas, 2004/11/29
- Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] ANSI test Windows OPEN.* failures,
Camm Maguire <=
- RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] ANSI test Windows OPEN.*failures, Mike Thomas, 2004/11/29
- Re: [Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] ANSI test Windows OPEN.*failures, root, 2004/11/29
- RE: [Axiom-developer] RE: [Gcl-devel] ANSI test Windows OPEN.*failures, Mike Thomas, 2004/11/29
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