From nobody@nowhere.net Wed Feb 14 04:17:29 2001 Path: news.mclink.it!news.caspur.it!serra.unipi.it!none!chico.franken.de!news-nue1.dfn.de!news-lei1.dfn.de!news-was.dfn.de!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.slurp.net!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3A89F8C9.E752FE83@nowhere.net> From: Jerry Gregg <nobody@nowhere.net> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD EBM-Compaq1 (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp Subject: cmucl on linux (redhat 7.0) easy install. Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 77 Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 22:17:29 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 209.161.78.155 X-Trace: newsfeed.slurp.net 982120588 209.161.78.155 (Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:16:28 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2001 21:16:28 CDT Xref: news.mclink.it comp.lang.lisp:46542 Hi, I just wanted to know if my installation of cmucl 18c under redhat 7.0 has any hidden problems. It just seems too easy. All that I heard referenced to on this form was painful sounding installs using Dabein packages etc. If it really is this easy, why isn't it talked about more? I'm sure that more people would use cmucl if this is all that there is to it. All that I did to install it was (done as "root" of course): 1. Download the tarballs for cmucl-18c that use glib21. This included the basic, extras, docs and source. (The source really isn't needed but I found that, that is where the good version of the xlib demo program "menu.lisp" is.) (Actually the docs aren't needed either but they are nice to have. I also use this doc directory to keep the CMU encyclopedia etc. downloaded from other sites.) 2. Expand the tarballs in /usr/local/lib/cmucl-18c/ The "doc" tarball needed to be expanded into a "doc" sub directory, all of the others created their own sub directories. 3. Copy the "sample-wrapper" that you will find in ../cmucl-18c/bin/ to /usr/local/bin and rename it what ever name you want to call lisp. This directory is in the standard path so linux will find it here. Edit this file and change the "/<<your-cmucl-path>>/" at the two locations to "/usr/local/lib/cmucl-18c/". In other words Change: CMUCLLIB=/<<your-cmucl-path>>/lib To: CMUCLLIB=/usr/local/lib/cmucl-18c/lib And Change: exec /<<your-cmucl-path>>/bin/lisp "$@" To: exec /usr/local/lib/cmucl-18c/bin/lisp "$@" I've haven't done anything with the entry that talks about a temp file. Exactly when would this be used and what would be the best way to set this up in Linux? All of this would be easy to change later so don't sweat it. 4. Change directory to /usr/local/lib/cmucl-18c/lib and run ./config I enabled everything except "motif and graphical debugger" since Motif (lesstif) is not part of Red Hat's standard installation. This creates a new lisp.core with these configurations and it made a backup of the original. (It is good to make a copy first that is explicitly labeled as the original version that has the safest configuration.) This is all that it took. If it is really this simple why didn't anyone tell me sooner? I've run small programs and had no problems yet. Actually my install is a little more complicated but it works installed like I said. On my system I named the sample-wrapper cmucl-18c and made soft links for it called "cmucl" and "lisp" so I can call it multiple ways. This is one advantage of this type of install, if you have other lisps which all want to be called "lisp" you can just rename the wrapper. I also have a soft link for the "cmucl-18c" directory just called "cmucl". I originally got this from a statement about how a cmu system was set up (using /usr/local/lib/cmucl/) but I don't know if it is important. Gary g-c-r-a-i-g-at-n-b-dot-n-e-t --------------------------------------------------------------------- [The author of this article, Jerry Gregg, suggested the inclusion of the text below, which is a fragment of another article of his in the same thread - Paolo Amoroso, editor of the EncyCMUCLOpedia] >> First of all concerning the easy install that I posted: Remember that you can use >> the sample-wrapper to rename lisp >> something else but you need to have cmucl named lisp and findable by linux when you >> run ./config. After that you >> can name it whatever you want. ---------------------------------------------------------------------