Greetings! BTW, I've learned that git does not play well with autotools in the sense that it does not preserve relative timestamps. There should be no need for nor build dependency on any version of autotools, and this should be apparent on obtaining the sources from the release tarball. From a git checkout, one may need to do:
touch aclocal.m4 configure.in configure Makefile.am Makefile.in Take care, Raymond Toy <toy.raym...@gmail.com> writes: > On 4/6/25 2:16 PM, Camm Maguire wrote: > > Greetings, and thank you so much for your report! > > I've pushed a fix to git branch gnu-build-system, which will appear in > release 2.7.0 shortly. > > Fantastic! I build 2.7.0 and can confirm the macrolet issue is fixed. > > However, I do have a build issue. I had to run autoconf again because I don’t > have aclocal-1.17. Everything built fine. But then I did make install. When I > run the > installed gcl, it can’t find /usr/lib/gcl-2.7.0/unixport/saved_gcl. I ran > “configure –prefix=$HOME/dev/gcl-2.7.0”. There is saved_gcl in > $HOME/dev/gcl-2.7.0/lib/gcl-2.7.0/unixport/saved_gcl, as I would have > expected. > > Take care, > > David Scherfgen <d.scherf...@googlemail.com> writes: > > Dear GCL developers, > > Here's another bug(?) I encountered. > > The following code works correctly when entering it directly into the REPL. > But compiling it doesn't work correctly. > > Place this in a file bug.lisp: > > (macrolet ((impl (op) `(,op x y))) > (defun add (x y) (impl +))) > > This defines a function add (x y) with the body (+ x y). > Compile it: > > (compile-file "bug.lisp") > > The compiler gives some warnings that already indicate that something is > wrong: > > ; (DEFUN ADD ...) is being compiled. > ;; Warning: The variable X is not used. > ;; Warning: The variable Y is not used. > > Load the compiled file and try to call add: > > (load "bug.o") > (add 3 4) > > The following error is shown: > > Condition in ADD [or a callee]: INTERNAL-SIMPLE-TYPE-ERROR: IMPL is not of > type FUNCTION: > > The compiler failed to expand the impl macro and treated it like a function! > > Tested with GCL 2.6.14. > > Best regards > David Scherfgen > > ​ > -- Camm Maguire c...@maguirefamily.org ========================================================================== "The earth is but one country, and mankind its citizens." -- Baha'u'llah
