From: handle (The Bug Handler)

Subject: Monthly ACL (Unix) FAQ change log

Date: 1994-11-7 14:20

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	Allegro CL (Unix) Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) with Answers

Last-modified: $Date: 1994/11/07 18:47:39 $
Version: $Revision: 1.41 $
Location: ftp.uu.net:~ftp/vendor/franz/faq

  This is a list of frequently asked questions on Allegro Common Lisp
  (ACL) for Unix machines (ACL\Windows issues are currently dealt with
  in the file aclwin-faq (found in this directory) and through the
  Franz Forum, details of which are available with the ACL\Windows
  package).  Please read this document before sending mail to
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  mail the list (with periodic updates) approximately monthly to
  <cs.berkeley.edu. at allegro-cl>  Periodically, also, items from this
  list will be incorporated into our documentation (and dropped from
  here). 

  Your comments, additions and fixes to this list are welcome: please
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Subject: Table of Contents
From: Preface

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1. Administrative Issues:
------------------------
  1.1.  ACL current version info
!	* What is the current version of ACL?
  1.2.  ACL-related communication
	* How should I report bugs?
	* In ACL 4.2beta, dribble-bug runs into the following error:
	  Error: Can't coerce :*PATCHES* to type SIMPLE-STRING.
	* dribble-bug output seems to lags behind Lisp I/O.
	* Sometimes CL output is not logged in the dribble-bug file.
	  What do I do about this?
!	* Is there a mailing list for Allegro CL?  How do I sign up?
  1.3.  Patches
!	* Is there a public patch directory you maintain for incremental
	  patches to the ACL image? If so, how do I get to it?
	* What is the ftp.uu.net, or what is the internet number so I
	  can get to all of your patches?
  1.4.  ACL Documentation
	* What is the relationship between this FAQ and ACL
	  documentation?
	* Is the ACL documentation available on-line?
  1.5.  Installation
	* What do I do about installing ACL 4.x over a network, when rcp
	  fails with permission problems?
	* Allegro CL seems to fail with our automounter.  What do we do?
	* How do I get around Lisp startup problems to do with NIH?
	* What do I do about the following error installing ACL4.2/CLIM2.0:
		ld: /x11/R4/sun4-lib/libX11.a: No such file or directory
	* What to do about "Error: The operating system will not
	  permit common lisp to read its own image"?
	* How do I specify premallocs arguments to build/install_lisp?


2. Architecture-specific problems:
---------------------------------
  2.1. SPARC
	* We're having problems getting CL up on a SS10 running SunOS
	  4.1.3.
	* What do I do for the sparc2/sparc10 incompatibility for Allegro
	  Runtime?
	* Even with the patch for the SS10, things don't work.  I'm
	  using CLIM.  Is this the culprit?	
	* Are there other circumstances under which I would get the
	  too-much-stack error? 
	* When I use Allegro CL on a SPARCstation2 the machine crashes
	  sometimes and I get the following message:
		   Watchdog reset
		   Window Underflow
		   Type help for more information
	* What do I do about using hardware multiply/divide
	  instructions on advanced Sparc chip architectures?  How do I
	  know if I have an architecture that qualifies as "advanced"?
	* Does ACL 4.1 run on a Sparc-5?
  2.2. SGI
	* Does ACL 4.1.mbeta work with MIPS R4000 chips?
	* When I try to execute the tar command, I get a premature EOF error.
	* During installation I get the following error message.  What do I
	  do? 
		| ;   Fast loading from bundle code/foreign.fasl.
		| ;     Foreign loading /tmp/Las14174.o.
		| Error (from debug): Foreign load failed
	* What is the sgi-ld-patch?
	* I ran into the following error message.  What do I do?
		| ;   Fast loading from bundle code/foreign.fasl.
		| ;     Foreign loading /tmp/Las3416.o.
		| /usr/bin/ld:
		| Can't locate file for: -lc_G0
	* My IRIX4.0.5F system doesn't have a G0 version of libsun.a.
	  What do I do about foreign function calls to this library?
	* I get an error claiming a library has no table of contents.
	  What should I do?
	* What do I do about the following SGI installation message?
	| libmld--as0: Error: /tmp/Las2817.s, line 5795: cannot write pfield
	| Error (from ERROR): Could not assemble the trampoline symbols file
	* On the SGI, while loading foreign code, I get the following message:

	Warning: jump relocation out-of-range, bad object file produced, can't
	jump from 0x100f62e0 to 0x40f840 (symbol name: abort) (call to"abort"
	resolved to a name in a different 256 megabyte memory area: the -y
	option to ld (example: -yabort ) will show the reference and
	definition locations)
	* What do I do about the following error obtained while
	building 4.2.malpha on Irix 5.2?
>> Unresolved: >> sqrt >> copysign >> *** Error code 1 (bu21)
2.3. NeXT * Does ACL on the NeXT work with the ObjectiveC interface? * We have just installed NeXTStep 3.0, and I tried out our old version of Allegro CL 3.1 with the following results:
> cl
Minor versions don't match in "/usr/shlib/libNeXT_s.C.shlib". This image cannot be executed. Can we just rebuild CL 3.1 or will that software not work with NeXTStep 3.0? 2.4. IBM RS6000 * With automount, what do I do about the following error? Allegro CL 4.1 [IBM RS/6000; R1] (4/7/93 11:35) Copyright (C) 1985-1992, Franz Inc., Berkeley, CA, USA. All Rights Reserved. Error: There is no file named "/auto50NhfKcS/general/xx/" [condition type: FILE-ERROR] [1] USER(1): + 2.5. HP 3. Using Allegro CL: ------------------- 3.1. Base Lisp * Does ACL 4.1 accept optional args to LAST and BUTLAST? * The doc string in DEFMACRO forms does not seem to be available via the emacs-lisp interface. It would sure be nice if that was available, like fi:lisp-function-documentation or fi:describe-symbol. * I get "NIL is not an arg-info." whenever I try to write structures to a file using excl:fasl-write. * I need a function that will tell me the name of a function object that I have been given. * While using logical pathnames, I ran into a reference to sys:hosts.cl. What does this mean? * How do I determine the directory where the lisp image that is curently running is located? * I'm left with running Lisp processes after I exit my Emacs/xterm. What do I do? 3.2. Garbage collector * When I run my application, some problems on heap space result. The error I get is: Error: An explicit gc call caused tenuring and a need for 22544384 more bytes of heap. This would exceed the image size limit set at initial build. [condition type: storage-condition] * I'd like to give my users an indication that gc is in progress, so that they will be patient. I have a function that will produce the desired indication with minimal consing. Any ideas on how to do this? 3.3. Foreign functions * Does all multiprocessing activity halt when (and while) waiting for foreign functions to complete? * How do I pass a C string back to Lisp? * Does ACL support Lisp-C interaction through RPC? * In ACL 4.2 can we call C++ functions as well as C functions? * How do I build a shared C/C++object file for loading in Solaris 2.x * What do I do about multiply-defined problems with /lib/libc.a? 3.4. Converting code from Franz Lisp to Allegro CL * What changes must I make to move from Franz Lisp to ACL? 4. Add-on products/features: --------------------------- 4.1. Emacs-Lisp interface * I can't seem to type lines with more than 256 characters at Lisp running within the Emacs interface. Why not? * Why do I get the "A background eval/compile request is pending, please wait..." message when doing an eval/compile in a Lisp buffer? * How can I get the ACL 4.1 emacs-lisp interface to work with epoch 4.0 and 4.1? * Is there a version of the Emacs-Lisp interface that works with Emacs version 19? * Where do I get FSF and Lucid Emacs from? 4.2. Lisp-Editor Protocol (LEP) * How can I edit an s-expression, possibly having lisp wait for the editor to finish the edit session? * How can I open a stream to an emacs buffer? * How can another stream be used for background output instead of creating the *background-interaction* buffer? * How can arbitrary elisp code be run from lisp? * Is the presentation system (mouse sensitive Allegro CL objects in emacs buffers) extensible? * Is there a way to programmatically determine if the emacs-lisp interface connect has been established? * How can I tell if lep had a problem? * Lemacs 19.10 and (setq fi::initialization-forms) * Lemacs (or ACL, or Composer, or my xterm) freezes when running some command that asks for a name in the minibuffer. 4.3. CLIM * The CLIM 2.0 demos don't seem to work. What should I do? * My ACL4.2.beta2.0 build on the HP fails if CLIM2.0beta is to be included in the image. If CLIM2.0beta is not included, the build succeeds. What do I do to build with CLIM? 4.4. Runtime ! * When I run ACL 4.2 without the development and without the compiler, and with EXCL::*COMPILER-NOT-AVAILABLE-WARNING* = T, I get warnings in two unexpected kinds of places, detailed below. What is going to run slower, and how much slower? 4.5. SQL DB Interface * Is there an Allegro SQL interface for relational databases? Where can I get it? + 4.6. Common Windows * When I call cw::initialize-common-windows with DISPLAY 192.5.238.11:0, I get the error: Unknown host "192.5.238.11".