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An AKCL Installation Guide
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 11:18:10 CDT
From: siebers%cadillac.cad.mcc.com@mcc.com (Greg Siebers)
Posted-Date: Fri, 23 Jun 89 11:18:10 CDT
To: olphie@cli.com
Subject: AKCL Installation Guide
Cc: amb@cs.utexas.edu, boyer@cli.com, wfs@rascal.ics.utexas.edu
AKCL Installation Instructions
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OVERVIEW:
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The AKCL system contains `change files' together with a method for combining them
with the original (June 1987) KCL distribution. The `merge' utility takes files
from the original distribution and modifies them according to a prescription in a
change file. The change files reside in the akcl/V directory. The enhancements
include enhancements to the Lisp compiler, the loader, and the basic C code. If
installed properly, NOTHING in the original kcl directory should be overwritten.
Files which have not changed will have only a link copy in the akcl directory,
and files which do change will have a changed copy in the akcl directory, and an
unchanged file in the kcl directory. To ensure that you do not accidentally
alter a file in the original directory you might wish to make the files there
unwritable. You do NOT need to do a make in the kcl directory.
For further information about KCL and AKCL, see the "Kyoto Common Lisp Report"
by Taiichi Yuasa and Masami Hagiya, and see "Kyoto Common LISP" by William F.
Schelter and Michael Ballantyne in the March, 1988 issue of _AI_EXPERT_.
OBTAINING THE SOURCES:
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KCL and AKCL source files may be obtained from the following internet hosts using
the procedure outlined below:
rascal.ics.utexas.edu 128.83.144.1
cli.com 192.31.85.1
% cd /usr/local {this is a suggested place to install KCL and AKCL}
% ftp rascal.ics.utexas.edu
{login as 'ftp' using the password 'guest'}
% cd pub
% ls -l
% binary
% get kcl.broadcast
{before continuing, print this file, sign the license
agreement, and mail two copies to Kyoto University}
% get kcl-report.doc {an on-line readable version of the KCL Report}
% get kcl-report.tex {a LaTeX version of the KCL Report}
% get kcl.tar.Z
% get akcl-1-XXX.tar.Z
{where XXX represents the version number; you probably
want the highest version number (currently 175)}
% quit
The procedure is similar for the host cli.com, but the files are located in
~ftp/pub/kcl and in ~ftp/pub/akcl. If necessary, KCL may also be obtained from
other internet hosts such as uunet.uu.net (192.48.96.2), gatekeeper.dec.com
(128.45.9.52), and orville.nas.nasa.gov (129.99.20.2); however, the versions of
AKCL found on such hosts are usually obsolete.
CREATING THE KCL AND AKCL DIRECTORIES:
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Make sure the two files kcl.tar.Z and akcl-1-XXX.tar.Z are in your current
directory, which is where you want to install KCL and AKCL, then do the
following:
% mkdir kcl
% (cd kcl ; uncompress -c ../kcl.tar.Z | tar xvf -)
% chmod -R 444 kcl
% chmod -R a+X kcl
% umask 022
% mkdir akcl
% cd akcl
% uncompress -c ../akcl-1-XXX.tar.Z | tar xvf -
PREPARING THE MAKEFILES:
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Edit the appropriate h/MACHINE.defs file, which contains definitions to be
included in the various makefiles. For example, if your 'MACHINE' is a sun3:
% emacs h/sun3.defs
* MAINDIR -- the directory called kcl where you just untarred kcl.tar.Z;
for example, if you are running the automount daemon under SunOS 4.0,
this might look something like:
MAINDIR = /net/MACHINE-NAME/usr/local/kcl
* CC -- if you are using the GNU C compiler:
CC = gcc -fwritable-strings -msoft-float -DVOL=volatile -I$(AKCLDIR)/o
or if you are using the conventional UNIX C compiler:
CC = cc -DVOL= -I$(AKCLDIR)/o -temp=. -Bstatic -Qoption as -O
where "-Bstatic" is needed only for SunOS 4.0, and "-Qoption as -O" is
needed only on a sun3 under SunOS 4.0 because of a Sun bug.
* ODIR_DEBUG -- use the highest level of optimization to compile the AKCL
source files:
ODIR_DEBUG = -O4 {simply -O for GNU C or for SunOS 3.5}
* OFLAG -- the output of Lisp compilation cannot always be compiled at -O4:
OFLAG = -O2 {simply -O for GNU C or for SunOS 3.5}
* RSYM and SFASL -- for a sun3 or sun4 machine, you probably want to leave
these defined (for other machines, give them an empty definition):
RSYM = rsym
SFASL = $(ODIR)/sfasl.o
* INITFORM -- if you desire to have KCL documentation files available
on-line within the Lisp environment, rather than using an external
documentation tool such as find-doc.el, add (load "../lsp/setdoc.lsp"):
INITFORM = (si::build-symbol-table)(load "../lsp/setdoc.lsp")
Install the definitions from the h/MACHINE.defs file into the makefiles:
% add-defs sun3 {in general: % add-defs MACHINE}
BUILDING AKCL:
-------------
% make -f Smakefile
The build procedure may stop once with an error asking you to become super-user
in order to install the cmpinclude.h header file. When this happens, use the
following steps to continue the build:
% su
password: <super-user-password>
# make cmpinclude.h
# exit
% make -f Smakefile
The build should continue without error. There may be occasional compiler
warnings, but all files should compile successfully. Smakefile is a special
makefile which causes make to be run twice, the first time building a saved_kcl
using the original compiler, and the second time compiling the modified compiler
with the original compiler. If this does not run twice, you will be using the
old compiler. If you later change any C source files, it will be sufficient to
use the regular makefile (which by now has been slightly altered).
When the build has finished, the h/cmpinclude.h header file must be copied to the
/usr/include directory of all workstations that intend to use AKCL. Again, this
may require super-user privileges.
Similarly, the command script xbin/kcl must be copied to /usr/local/bin or some
other appropriate location on each workstation. But first, however, it must be
edited so that the pathnames it contains are appropriate for your network (refer
to the definition of MAINDIR used in the h/MACHINE.defs file). Naturally, this
also requires that each workstation mount the filesystem containing the akcl
installation directory.
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