Hi Alex, >> I am trying to compile the latest picolisp 3.1.10 on 32 bit ARM. >> >> I remember I sent a patch fixing ARM compilation a while ago but that >> wasn't accepted, because the aditional cases would make the Makefile >> "ugly". > > Really? When was that? Please excuse my bad memory .. ;)
I managed to find those emails now: https://www.mail-archive.com/picolisp%40software-lab.de/msg03802.html https://www.mail-archive.com/picolisp%40software-lab.de/msg03434.html >> 1) is it ok to simply compile everything with -fPIC? E.g. fixing the >> makefile by calling >> >> (cd src ; sed -i s/-m32/-fPIC/g Makefile) >> >> or the picolisp binary should not be compiled with -fPIC? > > I would say that this is not right. The PIC flag (position independent > code) is - as I understand it - needed for the shared object libraries > (lib/ext and lib/ht), but not for the base system. But, on the other > hand, this is a matter of the system. On Mac OS, for example, position > independent code seems to be always necessary. Ok, so -fPIC does not break anything. >> 2) How do I run the picolisp test suite to verify, that the build is >> successful? > > This is an easier question. It is, BTW, also noted in the test file > "@lib/test.l" itself: > > ### Unit Tests ### > # Local usage: > # ./pil lib/test.l $(/bin/pwd) -bye + > > # Global usage: > # pil @lib/test.l $(/bin/pwd) -bye + > > If something goes wrong, it stops in an error break. Otherwise it simply > prints OK. Thanks for this. What do I need to do for it to exit with non-zero exit code? It would be nice if it was also available as a make check target for more traditional convention. That way people could run the tests without having to think about it too much:-) >> I am trying to compile the latest picolisp 3.1.10 on 32 bit ARM. > > You could also take a look at how Debian (Kan-Ru Chen?) is doing it. Ok. But it is a shame that compiling picolisp doesn't work out of the box, especially when it is easy to achieve. > I'm using PicoLisp on my Kobo E-Book reader, which has an ARM > CPU. Works perfectly out of the box with "apt-get install picolisp" :) You obviously never compiled it yourself and rely on debian instead. I dont have debian on my ARM machine, so I have to duplicate the fixing effort. Thank you, Tomas -- UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:picolisp@software-lab.de?subject=Unsubscribe
