Re: pkg/36017 (sbcl doesn't build it's posix module, and fails)

[Jon Buller <jon%Bullers.Net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/36017; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jon Buller <jon%Bullers.Net@localhost>
To: bharder <bharder%methodlogic.net@localhost>
Cc: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, jonb%NetBSD.org@localhost, 
pkgsrc-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost,
        gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/36017 (sbcl doesn't build it's posix module, and fails)
Date: Wed, 07 Nov 2007 19:22:23 -0800

 bharder wrote:
 > [another set of failures removed...]
 > 
 > (trying to bootstrap w/ CLISP)
 > 
 > 
 
 Ick.  And what is worse, I've had problems like that in the past and the 
 SBCL people always answer with "Well don't do that, use SBCL to 
 bootstrap instead. We don't really support CLisp, even though we made it 
 look like we do."  (Hence some of the comments in the pkg makefile...) 
 Of course this means either finding an existing version of SBCL that 
 works, or cross compiling from somewhere that does.  Neither option fits 
 well into pkgsrc.
 
 I need to talk to a few pkgsrc infrastructure gurus about maybe using 
 SBCL to bootstrap itself and get it in the bulk builds, or adding this 
 package into the bulk upload by hand.
 
 In the mean time, I suggest getting the antique 0.9.1(?) version on 
 sbcl.org, putting it into /usr/local, building with that, and always 
 keeping a copy of the binary package around when you want to upgrade 
 again.  I've also put the package I just built today on 
 ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/misc/jonb/sbcl-1.0.11.tgz.  It was built 
 on the netbsd-4 branch after rc3 was tagged.  Now if I only had an easy 
 of doing the same thing for the other supported branches...
 
 Jon