On Sun, Jan 02 2011, Gabriel Dos Reis wrote: > On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 3:27 PM, David Brown <l...@davidb.org> wrote: > >> Most Lisp compilers take significant amounts of work to make them build >> on a different configuration. ECL often just works. Asking it to try >> and deduce a bunch of information about that configuration would make it >> much less portable than it is. > > Bunch of information already contained in the "just working ECL" > That is the part that is being consistently missed in this discussion.
$ ./configure $ make $ make install That's what I mean by "just works". I can drop in various different compiles, variants on configurations, and ECL doesn't actually care. That's what I mean by "just works". As I understand, you as asking ECL to provide information to the running Lisp system about system configuration information that it doesn't even know when building it's own code. The only information it really knows, the cflags and ldflags use to compile C code, are wrapped up in the 'ecl-config' shell script that gets installed with the executable. David ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standardize their database environment, and, should the need arise, upgrade to a full multi-node Oracle RAC database without downtime or disruption http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnl _______________________________________________ Ecls-list mailing list Ecls-list@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ecls-list
