Josh Elsasser <j...@elsasser.org> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 07, 2020 at 08:40:35AM +0300, Timo Myyrä wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> 
>> SBCL has had few releases since last update. Biggest change on sbcl releases 
>> is
>> experimental support for arm platforms on OpenBSD.
>> 
>> So here's update to sbcl to latest release and adds sbcl to arm platforms as
>> well.  Tested lightly on amd64, so far looking good.
>> Seeking arm/aarch64 tests to see how well sbcl works on those.
>
> We will need to get lang/ecl updated first, and to switch the heap for
> devel/boehm-gc from sbrk to mmap. Then the sbcl port can switch the
> cross-compilation host lisp from clisp to ecl.
>
> Alternately, lang/clisp can be updated to a newer version. I started
> this but the ffcall patches are ugly and upstream wants to be able to
> run openbsd/macppc in qemu before accepting patches. If you want to go
> this route then see https://github.com/jre/libffcall-port and
> https://github.com/jre/clisp-port as well as the patches I sent to the
> ffcall list.

Ah, more work to do then.

I polished the ecl port update but it needs a bit of troubleshooting before its
ready for import. Currently the updated ecl port has some test failures and I 
guess
those errors cause the math/maxima test suite to fail as well.

Timo






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