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1. Administrative Issues:
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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?
+ * When I execute a standalone image, I get the message:
Warning! Can't find lisp library /vol/allegro/lib/.
2. Architecture-specific problems:
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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?
+ * How do I build ACL4.2 under Solaris2.4?
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)
> 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
* On the HP, why does it take so long to link each foreign library?
+ * I tried to install Allegro CL 4.2 on the HP station, it died with
"/bin/ld: Can't find library for -lPW".
3. Using Allegro CL:
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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:
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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".