[Axiom-developer] Re: Axiom trunk failure

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

root <address@hidden> writes:

| yep. it turns off the "tail recursion" noise. bill schelter and i
| worked on creating tail recursion in AKCL. This was just a debugging
| message at the time. For some reason it outlived its useful life and
| continues in the current code base. the message "exposes" lisp to 
| the user of the axiom interpreter so i removed it.
| 
| it should patch correctly. i suspect there is a mismatch between
| the GCL version you are using and the patch level you are using.
| 
| in the zips subdirectory all patches are named by the .tgz file
| to which they apply. the name also includes the directory path
| to the file and the name of the file. so 
| 
| zips/gcl-2.6.7
| 
| has patches like
| 
| gcl-2.6.7.cmpnew.gcl_cmpflet.lsp.patch
| 
| which lives in lsp/gcl-2.6.7/cmpnew/gcl_cmpflet.lsp

All that is fine.

After some investigation, I nailed down the problem.  
The file lsp/gcl-2.6.7/cmpnew/gcl_cmpflet.lsp (unlike any other files
that are subject to patches) has DOS-style newlines which is not
reflected in the patch being applied.  I don't know how that comes
into existence.  Therefore the failure to match. 

I manually removed those DOS-style newlines and applied the patch, it
just work fine.

-- Gaby