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| -rw-r--r-- | gnu/packages/lisp.scm | 27 |
1 files changed, 23 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/gnu/packages/lisp.scm b/gnu/packages/lisp.scm index 4a5b009eee..caf52018d1 100644 --- a/gnu/packages/lisp.scm +++ b/gnu/packages/lisp.scm @@ -353,11 +353,21 @@ an interpreter, a compiler, a debugger, and much more.") ;; ABCL (recent versions only) ;; CLISP (only some versions: 2.44.1 is OK, 2.47 is not) ;; XCL - ;; CCL seems ideal then, but it unfortunately only builds reliably - ;; on some architectures. + ;; + ;; From NEWS: + ;; * build enhancement: new host quirks mechanism, support for building under + ;; ABCL and ECL (as well as CCL, CMUCL, CLISP and SBCL itself) + ;; + ;; CCL is not bootstrappable so it won't do. CLISP 2.49 seems to work. + ;; ECL too. ECL builds SBCL about 20% slower than CLISP. As of + ;; 2019-09-05, ECL was last updated in 2016 while CLISP was last update + ;; in 2010. + ;; + ;; For now we stick to CLISP for all systems. We keep the `match' in to + ;; make it easier to change the host compiler for various architectures. `(,@(match (%current-system) ((or "x86_64-linux" "i686-linux") - `(("ccl" ,ccl))) + `(("clisp" ,clisp))) (_ `(("clisp" ,clisp)))) ("which" ,which) @@ -428,7 +438,7 @@ an interpreter, a compiler, a debugger, and much more.") (setenv "CC" "gcc") (invoke "sh" "make.sh" ,@(match (%current-system) ((or "x86_64-linux" "i686-linux") - `("ccl")) + `("clisp")) (_ `("clisp"))) (string-append "--prefix=" @@ -488,6 +498,15 @@ statistical profiler, a code coverage tool, and many other extensions.") (license:x11-style "file://src/code/loop.lisp"))))) (define-public ccl + ;; Warning: according to upstream, CCL is not bootstrappable. + ;; See https://github.com/Clozure/ccl/issues/222 from 2019-09-02: + ;; + ;; "As far as I know, there is no way to build CCL without an existing + ;; running CCL image. It was bootstrapped back in 1986 or so as + ;; Macintosh Common Lisp, by Gary Byers, I believe, who is no longer on + ;; the planet to tell us the story. It SHOULD be possible to port the + ;; CCL compiler to portable Common Lisp, so that ANY lisp could build + ;; it, as is the case for SBCL, but I know of no attempt to do so." (package (name "ccl") (version "1.11.5") |