Re: Question about clisp version naming

2015-03-16 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/16/2015 4:07 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Yaakov Selkowitz writes: Is there an issue with stripping clisp executables? Yes, with the executable dumps. Is there a magic number we can use to detect these automatically? File identifies them as plain executables. CLisp knows which runtime

Re: Question about clisp version naming

2015-03-16 Thread Ken Brown
On 3/16/2015 3:41 PM, Achim Gratz wrote: Achim Gratz writes: The loading of memory images via clisp works, so I'll pull the maxima-exec-clisp package until we get to the bottom of this. Hmm. Scratch that, I think I got the maxima.exe (dumped image) to work. Let's see if it survives

Re: Question about clisp version naming

2015-03-16 Thread Achim Gratz
Yaakov Selkowitz writes: Looking at the executable it seems that it is a very small (~66 kiB) stub that then proceeds to load the rest of the file after having started the runtime. The memory image seems simply bolted on (as an overlay?), and gets removed when the executable is stripped. UPX

Re: Question about clisp version naming

2015-03-16 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: The clisp executables are not stripped because apparently there's a disassemble command within clisp that doesn't work if the executables are stripped. I don't actually know anything about this, but there was a comment about that in the .cygport file that I inherited from

Re: Question about clisp version naming

2015-03-16 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Mon, 2015-03-16 at 23:16 +0100, Achim Gratz wrote: Ken Brown writes: The clisp executables are not stripped because apparently there's a disassemble command within clisp that doesn't work if the executables are stripped. I don't actually know anything about this, but there was a

Re: Question about clisp version naming

2015-03-16 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: No it doesn't. Specifically, it doesn't like being stripped. I'll RESTRICT that, let's hope it works now… Yup, it does. Great. Thanks for testing. There's probably no reason for me to upload a new clisp package right now (unless it would help you). But I'll give you a

Re: Question about clisp version naming

2015-03-16 Thread Achim Gratz
Ken Brown writes: Just for testing purposes, I've built a new clisp with /usr/bin/cyglisp.dll and /usr/lib/liblisp.dll.a, and I've uploaded it to my Cygwin repository: http://sanibeltranquility.com/cygwin/ When you get a chance, please test it and see if it allows you to avoid your

Re: Question about clisp version naming

2015-03-16 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: Ken Brown writes: Just for testing purposes, I've built a new clisp with /usr/bin/cyglisp.dll and /usr/lib/liblisp.dll.a, and I've uploaded it to my Cygwin repository: http://sanibeltranquility.com/cygwin/ When you get a chance, please test it and see if it allows you

Re: Question about clisp version naming

2015-03-16 Thread Achim Gratz
Achim Gratz writes: The loading of memory images via clisp works, so I'll pull the maxima-exec-clisp package until we get to the bottom of this. Hmm. Scratch that, I think I got the maxima.exe (dumped image) to work. Let's see if it survives installation. No it doesn't. Specifically, it

Re: Question about clisp version naming

2015-03-16 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On Mon, 2015-03-16 at 20:41 +0100, Achim Gratz wrote: Achim Gratz writes: The loading of memory images via clisp works, so I'll pull the maxima-exec-clisp package until we get to the bottom of this. Hmm. Scratch that, I think I got the maxima.exe (dumped image) to work. Let's see if it

Re: Question about clisp version naming

2015-03-16 Thread Achim Gratz
Yaakov Selkowitz writes: Is there an issue with stripping clisp executables? Yes, with the executable dumps. Is there a magic number we can use to detect these automatically? File identifies them as plain executables. CLisp knows which runtime they were rpdocued from, so there must by some

Re: perl-5.14.4

2015-03-16 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Mar 14 21:30, Achim Gratz wrote: Corinna Vinschen writes: So the binutils problem is fixed upstream, we're just waiting for GDB to catch up. Another collegue of mine will have a look as soon as time permits. Here's one for testing, Achim: