Re: pkg/45597: Circular dependency detected in lang/sbcl with SBCL_BOOT_SYSTEM=sbcl

[Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/45597; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Matthew Mondor <mm_lists%pulsar-zone.net@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: pkg/45597: Circular dependency detected in lang/sbcl with
 SBCL_BOOT_SYSTEM=sbcl
Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:56:18 -0500

 On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 20:45:02 +0000 (UTC)
 diro%nixsyspaus.org@localhost wrote:
 
 > The following reply was made to PR pkg/45597; it has been noted by GNATS.
 > 
 > From: diro%nixsyspaus.org@localhost
 > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
 > Cc: 
 > Subject: Re: pkg/45597: Circular dependency detected in lang/sbcl with 
 > SBCL_BOOT_SYSTEM=sbcl
 > Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:40:32 -0500
 > 
 >  On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 08:15:06PM +0000, Matthew Mondor wrote:
 >  >  
 >  >  Indeed, unless it's able to download a prebuilt SBCL it can't bootstrap
 >  >  with it (I keep some old SBCL around for this here).  But more recently
 >  >  bootstrapping with clisp worked for me; perhaps that should now be the
 >  >  default?
 >  
 >  It is the default. So, one would have to build clisp to bootstrap sbcl and 
 > then
 >  rebuild sbcl using the sbcl bootstrapped with clisp to bootstrap sbcl with 
 > sbcl?
 
 Oh, I missed that it was already the default.
 
 Why do you want an SBCL-bootstrapped SBCL if clisp can bootstrap it?
 It only affects the bootstrap (building the initial compiler), so SBCL
 still builds its own world afterwards; then the binary package you have
 can be installed on other hosts without the clisp dependency.  It's
 been a little while I last built it, but I think this is how it works.
 
 Thanks,
 -- 
 Matt