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- From: zxmsd01@studserv.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de (Gunther Schadow)
- Subject: [386BSD] AKCL distribution with source is out now!
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- Summary: I put AKCL at agate.berkeley.edu
- Keywords: AKCL Common LISP Kyoto Austin 386BSD
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- Organization: Comp. Center (ZDV) U of Tuebingen, FRG
- Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 21:46:01 GMT
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-
- Hi all,
-
- The time is ripe! We finally have a complete Common LISP for 386BSD:
- Austin Kyoto Common LISP (currently based on 1.609). I just put it at
- ~/pub/incoming/akcl.386bsd.tar.Z:agate.berkeley.edu for the unpatient:
- you can fetch it from there (remember it is unlistable directory).
- Chris will hopefuly put it into 0.1-ports/lisp.
-
- attached is the README file...
-
- Enjoy!
- ((((Gunther))))
-
- -------------------------------------------------------------------------
- This is
- Austin Kyoto Common LISP
- for
- 386BSD
-
- +++
-
- This software contains, to the best of my
- knowledge, no proprietary, trade secret, or
- otherwise encumbered code. I am making this
- software available for incorporation into 386BSD,
- understanding that 386BSD is a freely
- redistributable and modifiable system.
-
- +++
-
- THE FINAL STEP is towards a distribution of Common LISP for 386BSD is
- made! After my port of KCL, which didn't support full KCL functionality
- (SAVE was missing), a lot of questions came by mail or usenet, whether
- I would port AKCL too. Fortunately this work has already been done by
- Alan W. Black, at least to quite an extend. It is now several months
- that I was announcing the comming AKCL. I was waiting for Alan to
- complete his work, however he seems to be too busy to make a
- distribution out of it. After I had problems making AKCL, it does
- compile completely now.
- This Port provides *full* functionality, including interpreter,
- compiler, SAVE and FASLINK facility, of which the latter is said to be
- highly unportable --- however it works with 386BSD! Thank's to Alan,
- and of course again to Bill & Lynne Jolitz, who made this at all
- possible! I'm just happy to bring all the patches in an easy-to-use
- format and make it available to the public. I'd like to see LISP grow
- on 386BSD!
- And even more! I contacted Taiichi Yuasa and Masami Hagiya, the
- authors of KCL whether we may distribute binaries based on their code,
- and we got OK from them! So here is the binary included. With the
- FASLINK and SAVE facilities it is easy to add new default features, so
- that it is not necessary to recompile the whole thing in order to add
- few procs. Thanks to Taiichi Yuasa, Masami Hagiya and Bill Schelter
- for making a powerful Common LISP available for free!
-
-
- IMPORTANT NOTICE
-
- As mentioned above, KCL is good stuff, and everyone can have it for
- free, but you need a license from SIGLISP to copy KCL.
-
- "(c) Copyright Taiichi Yuasa and Masami Hagiya, 1984. All rights reserved.
- Copying of this file is authorized to users who have executed the true and
- proper "License Agreement for Kyoto Common LISP" with SIGLISP."
-
- You already copied KCL while you read this, and that's OK. according
- to the Authors (who are essentially SIGLISP). But please don't forget
- to send the LICENSE form, if you are not yet registered to SIGLISP.
- Print LICENSE, and send it filled to the address given therein. You
- may FAX (#0532-45-0480) it but it needs to be a hard copy, so don't
- E-Mail. You want a letter from Japan? Unfortunately they do not reply
- with nice stamps :-).
-
-
- WHAT IT CONTAINS
-
- This archive contains the following stuff:
-
- LICENSE the SIGLISP license agreement for KCL
- README this file
- saved_kcl the akcl binaries --- do not strip!
- bin/akcl a script to run saved_kcl correctly
- bin/lc* scripts to call the LISP compiler
- doc/ various documentation
- lisp/ some lisp code, collected rather randomly
- littleX/* a rather simple (but small) graphics support for X11
- ./Xdemo.l to use as a staring point
- ./turtle.l a little turtle graphics implementation
- xakcl/ complete X11 interface for AKCL (RAM expensive!)
- src/386bsd.tar.Z the patches to build the system
- src/akcl-1-609.tar.Z Austin extensions by W. Schelter
- src/kcl.tar.Z Kyoto Common LISP sources
- src/ftime.tar.Z The ftime function for compatibility
-
- The version of AKCL herein is 1.609
-
-
- HOW TO START
-
- 1. Place the whole archive in /usr/local/lib/akcl
-
- 2. Install shell scripts in bin/ into /usr/local/bin. You can remove
- the bin directory here afterwards. Saved_kcl doesn't go to
- /usr/local/bin!
-
- 3. Make a link
-
- # ln /usr/local/bin/akcl /usr/local/bin/lisp
-
- Emacs wants to call "lisp" with run-lisp.
-
- 4. Now Type
-
- # lisp
-
- if you want to try it. It is useful to run lisp from within Emacs,
- so you can edit the command lines more comfortably. Do this whith
- the Emacs command "M-x run-lisp".
-
- 5. If you don't want to remake the system (actually you don't have to)
- you can delete all the *.tar.Z files. Otherwise move them to
- /usr/src/local
-
-
- X11 SUPPORT
-
- There is a nice little graphics support provided with AKCL. Try
-
- >(LOAD "/usr/local/lib/akcl/littleX/Xdemo.l")
-
- Of course you need to have X11 running for that. When you step across
- the demo, you will see any provided function at least once. If you
- want to see more about it see the file littleXlsp.lsp.
- Xdemo.l is also an example of the FASLINK feature provided with
- AKCL. It is possible to dynamically link object code into a running
- AKCL session. See Xdemo.l for how it works.
- I also made a simple turtle graphics tool called turtle.l. Turtle
- graphics is nice in order to visualize recursive function processing
- in an easy way. A logo interpreter would be nice to have too. I love
- logo for the purpose of teaching how to program a computer (first
- steps ... :-).
-
- XAKCL is another, more complete X11 interface to Xlib and Xutil
- libraries. I just had a quick look at it so far, and it seems like my
- 8MByte RAM are too few to handle X+AKCL+XAKCL all together. An
- AKCL+XAKCL memory image is about 3MByte without any opened window.
- Since I need to run Emacs for AKCL (command line editing is a must for
- me) there is another 1.5MB. So I think there is few sense to run XAKCL
- unless you have shared libraries installed (either the early version or
- the one coming with 386BSD 0.2).
-
-
- MAKING THE SYSTEM
-
- Although you normally don't have to do it, the procedure to recompile
- the system is simple:
-
- 1. Make the directories /usr/src/local/kcl /usr/src/local/akcl
-
- 2. Cd to /usr/src/local/kcl and unpack kcl.tar.Z there.
-
- 3. Cd to /usr/src/local/akcl and unpack akcl-1-609.tar.Z there.
-
- 4. Now remain in /usr/src/local/akcl and unpack 386bsd.tar.Z there.
- This will overwrite some files of the original akcl distribution,
- and will add some new.
-
- 5. Type
- # add-defs 386bsd
-
- and AKCL will set up for 386bsd.
-
- 6. Type
- # make -f Smakefile
-
- to start the make process of AKCL.
-
- PLEASE NOTE:
- Make wants to be always called this way:
-
- # make -f Smakefile
-
- and not just with "make", because there is a file called "makefile"
- created, that is *not* used as the main makefile! Please remember my
- words!
-
- When you reach the point where saved_kcl is being built for the first
- time the machine may stop with an error on numlib.lsp. Although I
- couldn't proof this I bet this error occurs If you have the original
- definition of MAX_DBL in /usr/include/float.h. This should be
- corrected and the system recompiled. If you do not have an error just
- forget about this.
- When you reach the point where saved_kcl was built successfuly for
- the first time, Smakefile compiles lsp/*.lsp and cmpnew/*.lsp with
- that version of saved_kcl. This will take some time (at least on a
- i486/33), and even 8MByte of RAM space may be too few to prevent the
- thing from swaping. You may want to kill the any other process runing
- on your machine for this time.
- You should end up with a saved_kcl in the unixport directory. This
- file is rather big, however do *not* strip it unless you want to lose
- the FASLINK facility which needs the symbol table.
-
-
- LISP WORK GROUP
-
- We have the possibility to build a work group on LISP by the work
- groups provided on ref.tfs.com. This is merely a mailing list. If you
- are interested contact me.
-
-
- CONTACT
-
- For comments & complaints, send E-Mail to
-
- gunther@student.zdv.uni-tuebingen.de
-
- Please note that this address is valid only up to spring 1993, if you
- want to go safe use gunther@ref.tfs.com.
-
- Enjoy,
- -Gunther
-
-
- BTW: I DISLIKE COMMON LISP SOMEHOW
-
- Well here's my c0.02 opinion on Common LISP. While I love LISP for
- being a functional language, where data and programs are the same
- thing (where programs do not even exist they're functions), there is
- something about Common LISP I do dislike. Why is the following not a
- valid Common LISP term?
-
- ((list 'lambda '(x) '(car x)) '(a b c))
-
- It is an invalid function, but in fact
-
- (list 'lambda '(x) '(car x)) eval's to a legal lambda expression
-
- (lambda (x) (car x))
-
- I'm sad that the nice EXPRs, FEXPRs and SUBRs are more and more
- obsolete now. Are these facilities given up for compilability
- concerns? An other example, I used to define local functions in TLC
- LISP on the fly like this:
-
- (de myexp
- ((label local-power
- (lambda (x y)
- (cond ((zerop x) 1)
- (t (times x (local-power x (minus y 1))))))) 2.7183 x))
-
- Now we have to take two steps to make a label definition and then call
- by that label.
-
- (defun myexp
- (labels local-power
- (lambda (x y)
- (cond ((zerop x) 1)
- (t (times x (local-power x (minus y 1))))))
- (local-power 2.7183 x)))
-
- It is the same sense I dislike the let term, because it weakens the
- lambda calculus for a gain of little convenience. OK the let term can
- be replaced by a lambda term, but the label term cannot. Sigh...
-
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- Gunther Schadow, e-mail: Gunther@studserv.ZDV.Uni-Tuebingen.DE
- Sudetenstrasse 25, Phone: (49) 7071/37527
- 7400 Tuebingen, Germany.__________Stop__________Horn Please!__________O.K. TATA
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- Sudetenstrasse 25, Phone: (49) 7071/37527
- 7400 Tuebingen, Germany.__________Stop__________Horn Please!__________O.K. TATA
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