Subject: Re: self bootstrapping packages?
To: None <tech-pkg@netbsd.org>
From: Aleksej Saushev <asau@inbox.ru>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 11/12/2007 20:41:04
Alan Barrett <apb@cequrux.com> writes:

> On Sun, 11 Nov 2007, Jon Buller wrote:
>> The only trouble was that SBCL needs a Common Lisp system to build itself.  
>
> Is there any Common Lisp system written in C?  If so, could SBCL have a
> BUILD_DEPENDS referring to it?

There're CLISP (lang/clisp) and ECL (wip/ecl), only former is useful,
other implementations are closed source or even worse supported
on NetBSD.