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From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
Subject: Re: Has anybody "ported" CMU Comon Lisp to Unix on i386
Message-ID: <1997Jan19.135408.857@wavehh.hanse.de>
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Date: Sun, 19 Jan 97 13:54:08 GMT
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cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) writes:

>Bill&Virginia Hodges <hodges@oz.net> writes:

>>I just downloaded the sources for version 17F.
>>It appears that it requires a CMUCL as a starting
>>point to build CMUCL.  I need pointers on ways
>>to bootstrap my self around this dilemma.
>>BTW I am on NetBSD-1.2 with Xwindows X11R6.

>CMUCL has been ported to FreeBSD and Linux. The FreeBSD version works
>on NetBSD/i386.

Well, one thing I forgot to mention is that you can't use runtime
loading of foreign object when you run the FreeBSD version on
NetBSD. And you can't currently rebuild on NetBSD, so you'll have to
live with what C code is build into the distribution (like many
workstation users do as well).

>See
>http://www.cons.org/cmucl

Martin
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