Getting SBCL to work: possible to volunteer?

LaMont Jones lamont at canonical.com
Sun Oct 24 19:27:57 CDT 2004


On Sat, Oct 23, 2004 at 09:54:53AM -0700, Keith Irwin wrote:
> SBCL (steel bank common lisp) exists in the universe pool but is not
> packaged.  I assume that it didn't get built for some reason or another,
> most likely a problem with the environment in which packages get built,
> my guess being that SBCL might need itself in order to build.

When I attempted to bootstrap sbcl just before the release, it failed
with:

> cd doc && sh make-doc.sh
> make[1]: Entering directory `/build/buildd/sbcl-0.8.21+truly.0.8.12/doc'
> warning: failed to load external entity "docbook_chunk.xsl"
> compilation error: file html_chunk.xsl line 5 element import
> xsl:import : unable to load docbook_chunk.xsl
> make[1]: *** [html-stamp] Error 5

Patches welcome.
lamont



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