Re: [STUMP] New Debian package, 20080721, git-6e67440f9a6f000bc2b921cd509e5bedb116cf5e

[Luca Capello]

Hi Shawn!

On Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:00:50 +0200, Shawn wrote:
> Luca Capello <address@hidden> writes:
>> 1) it uses CLISP to build the Info manual
>
> Unfortunately for some reason clisp doesn't keep the documentation for
> compiled macros (at least not with any clisp builds that i've used),
> so any macros documented in the manual will tell you to build it using
> sbcl.

While testing the build process with SBCL I found a bug in CLX which
prevents CLX to be automatically loaded [1], thus rendering SBCL
completely unusable in this case, because the Debian package process
building must be automated.

OTOH, this also causes the Debian stumpwm binary wrapper [2] to hang on,
waiting for user's input when sometime the user cannot do anything
(e.g. if it logins via a xdm).  That's why the Debian package now
defaults to CLISP [3][4].

However, I discovered other differences between a CLISP-built
stumpwm.info and an SBCL-built one.  I'm filing a Debian bug report and
cc: this list, too.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

Footnotes: 
[1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=492046
[2] 
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-common-lisp/stumpwm.git;a=blob;f=debian/stumpwm.bin;h=6f936862e6f6a57b5a70ef5ecf4023add45ac873;hb=HEAD
[3] 
http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-common-lisp/stumpwm.git;a=commitdiff;h=629826d7af282598c8c057732cf821b15b4ec182
[4] and anyway I use CLISP ;-)

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