Re: building new clisp

[haible (Bruno Haible)]

Richard Shepherd <rls@therat.math.waikato.ac.nz> says:

> I already have the 1995-01-01 sources and so I only retrieved the new
> clispsrc-newreadline.tar.z and the
> clispsrc-1995-01-01-to-1995-04-04.tar.z.
> I have untarred the old sources and now I guess I untar the update
> INSIDE the directory clisp-1995-01-01

Right.

> perhaps after renaming it clisp-1995-04-04 ?

You can rename the directory beforehand or afterwards.

> and go: patch < diffs-1995-01-01-to-1995-04-04

Use:      patch -p1 < diffs-1995-01-01-to-1995-04-04

> This FFI sounds really good for my work...

Please test it and report problems. I have tested it only with some Linux
C library functions. If someone could write X11/Xt/Xaw library bindings,
that would be great.


                    Bruno Haible
                    haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de