From: Stig Hemmer
Subject: Installing CMU CL. Missing files?
Date: 
Message-ID: <ekv3e41xb5g.fsf@bigblue.pvv.ntnu.no>
I decided to try to install CMU CL, but are having some problems.

I started my quest at http://www.cons.org/cmucl/.

The target machine is running FreeBSD 2.2.

I went to ftp://ftp2.cons.org/pub/languages/lisp/cmucl/release/ and fetched
3490672  cmucl-18b.source.tgz
2061397  cmucl-18b.x86.freebsd22.extra.tgz
4417322  cmucl-18b.x86.freebsd22.tgz
(That's file sizes in front of the names)

Then I untarred everything and started wondering what to do next.

I took a look at the online manual at
http://www.mindspring.com/~rtoy/software/cmu-user/index.html

This manual refered to README and to doc/release-notes.txt.  These
files do not exist in any of the tar-files mentioned above.  In fact,
I don't have a "doc" directory at all.

So, where do I find these files?

Bewilderedly yours,

Stig Hemmer,
Jack of a Few Trades.
From: Rob Warnock
Subject: Re: Installing CMU CL. Missing files?
Date: 
Message-ID: <7ap2cl$7gequ@fido.engr.sgi.com>
Stig Hemmer  <····@pvv.ntnu.no> wrote:
+---------------
| I decided to try to install CMU CL, but are having some problems.
| 3490672  cmucl-18b.source.tgz
| 2061397  cmucl-18b.x86.freebsd22.extra.tgz
| 4417322  cmucl-18b.x86.freebsd22.tgz
| Then I untarred everything and started wondering what to do next.
+---------------

Well, I haven't tried to use any of the "extra" stuff yet, but the base
image ran on my FreeBSD 2.2.6 system right out of the box after I did this:

	% mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/cmucl
	% cd /usr/local/lib/cmucl
	% zcat $WHERE_I_PUT_IT/cmucl-18b.x86.freebsd22.tgz | tar xvBf -
	...tar chatter...
	% zcat $WHERE_I_PUT_IT/cmucl-18b.x86.freebsd22.extra.tgz | tar xvBf -
	...tar chatter...
	# the next line is personal preference, use ".../lisp" if you like.
	% ln -s /usr/local/lib/cmucl/bin/lisp /usr/local/bin/cmucl
	# make "man cmucl" and "man lisp" work
	% cd /usr/local/man/man1
	% ln -s /usr/local/lib/cmucl/man/*.1 .
	% cd
	% rehash
	% cmucl
	CMU Common Lisp 18b, running on [machine-name]
	Send questions and bug reports to your local CMU CL maintainer,
	or to ··········@cons.org. and ·········@cons.org. respectively.
	Loaded subsystems:
	    Python 1.0, target Intel x86
	    CLOS based on PCL version:  September 16 92 PCL (f)
	*  (values (+ 2 3) (* 2 3))

	5
	6
	* (quit)
	% 

Hope that helps...


-Rob

p.s. You may also want to edit /usr/local/lib/cmucl/lib/site-init.lisp
(but since there's just me using it, I haven't bothered yet).

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From: Raymond Toy
Subject: Re: Installing CMU CL. Missing files?
Date: 
Message-ID: <36D06139.81C5A0F@mindspring.com>
>
> I took a look at the online manual at
> http://www.mindspring.com/~rtoy/software/cmu-user/index.html
>
> This manual refered to README and to doc/release-notes.txt.  These
> files do not exist in any of the tar-files mentioned above.  In fact,
> I don't have a "doc" directory at all.
>

That manual was derived from the version from 17b and earlier.  It's been
updated to include stuff about 18a/b, but obviously some legacy stuff is still
there. :-)

I don't think there was anything really important in the  doc directory,
except, perhaps the sources for the manual.

> So, where do I find these files?
>

They're available somewhere in www.cons.org, or on the CMU AI archives site.
With the HTML manual on-line, that's really all you'll need.  The README and
release-notes have not been kept up to date, so they're probably useless.

Ray
comp.lang.lisp / 1999 / feb