common lisp

Matt Zimmerman mdz at canonical.com
Mon Oct 18 21:10:44 UTC 2004


On Sun, Oct 17, 2004 at 03:47:07PM -0700, Keith Irwin wrote:

> Installed warty, love it!
> 
> I noticed in "universe" thousands, millions of cl-* packages.  Great!
> 
> Alas, but they all need a lisp compiler, such as sbcl, which doesn't
> seem to appear with apt-get, apt-cache, etc. If I surf to
> pool/.../s/sbcl, I see a tarball, a dsc, etc.
> 
> Can I expect this to be fixed at some point?  Is it even broken?  Is
> there someone I can ping about it?

It probably requires manual bootstrapping, since sbcl requires itself in
order to build.

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 - mdz




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