Bootstrapping SBCL with CLISP on OS X 10.3.1

From: David Steuber (david.steuber_at_verizon.net)
Date: 11/26/03 

Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 22:55:06 GMT

I have the CVS checkout of SBCL from a few hours ago. I tried to
build it using CLISP from Darwin Ports. It was a no-go. I'm not
sure what to fix or how to fix it. Here is the last bit of output:

Compilation of file /Users/david/usr/src/sbcl/sbcl/src/compiler/generic/genesis.lisp is finished.
The following functions were used but not defined:
 SB!FASL::NOTE-LOAD-TIME-CODE-FIXUP
0 errors, 0 warnings
;; Loading file obj/from-host/src/compiler/generic/genesis.lisp-obj ...
;; Loading of file obj/from-host/src/compiler/generic/genesis.lisp-obj is finished.
T
beginning GENESIS, creating headers in "src/runtime/genesis"

*** - DOCUMENTATION: first argument #<PACKAGE SB!WALKER> is illegal, not a symbol
Bye.
//entering make-target-1.sh
//building runtime system and symbol table file
GNUmakefile:73: depend: No such file or directory
gnumake: *** No rule to make target `genesis/*.h', needed by `sbcl.h'. Stop.

I used the 'sh make.sh clisp' command. I am using CLISP from Darwin
Ports:

$ clisp --version
GNU CLISP 2.29 (released 2002-07-25) (built 3276354619) (memory 3276355275)
Features:
(CLOS LOOP COMPILER CLISP ANSI-CL COMMON-LISP LISP=CL INTERPRETER SOCKETS
 GENERIC-STREAMS LOGICAL-PATHNAMES SCREEN GETTEXT UNICODE BASE-CHAR=CHARACTER
 UNIX)

I had an older version of SBCL but the upgrade to Panther broke it.

Also, FYI, the link to the CL Hyperspec on

  http://sbcl.sourceforge.net/

is broken. I believe I have a copy of the hyperspec from elsewhere,
but the link should still be fixed or removed.

Has anyone built a working binary for Panther on the G4? Or can I
use the Linux (Debian Unstable branch, KRM packages) version to cross
compile from x86 Linux to PPC OS X?

Ideally, what I would like to do is build SBCL with CLISP if possible
and then rebuild it again with the resulting SBCL. Such a process
ought to leave me with a working SBCL like I would have gotten if I
was self-bootstrapping with a running SBCL.

I thought I would try checking out the latest version of CLISP but
CVS doesn't seem to be responding. Or I am too impatient. 

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