[gentoo-user] Lisp is not Lisp is... ?

[gentoo-user] Lisp is not Lisp is... ?

[Meino.Cramer]

Hi,

I am a little confused....

I had installed dev-lisp/clisp on my PC, then I tried that on my two
little ARM (armv5ejt) boards and I fails.
Then I installed dev-lisp/gcl there (which compiles fine).

But...

When I called clisp on my PC I get (beside some ascii art and others):

    Welcome to GNU CLISP 2.49 (2010-07-07)

(as fasr as I know "c" in clisp stands for "common" so this is
GNU COMMON LISP 2.49

When I call gcl on my arm board I get:

    GCL (GNU Common Lisp)  2.6.12 ANSI

This seems to be also GNU COMMON LISP...just a newer version.

WHat do I confuse here?
Why two different packages for one LISP dialect?

Thank you very much for any deconfusing informations in advance! :)

Best regards
mcc

Re: [gentoo-user] Lisp is not Lisp is... ?

[R0b0t1]

They are different packages, see
http://packages.gentoo.org/category/dev-lisp. You have both at recent
versions.

[gentoo-user] Re: Lisp is not Lisp is... ?

[James]

 <Meino.Cramer <at> gmx.de> writes:


> Then I installed dev-lisp/gcl there (which compiles fine).


You might want to cross-compile the codes and dependent codes
on a x86 machine and move them over, as another test....

I'd first try by only setting the minimum you need to get
the codes to compile. Then test and see if they work on the 
arm(target) as you expect with some know valid lisp codes.
On SoC often operands are said to be supported, but it's in
software only and that causes severe to critical timing problems
when desired codes are actually run on the target.


Find a working lisp for a common/similar arm chip, like R. pi?


good-hunting,
James