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Date:Mon Aug 21 14:22:56 1999 
Subject:Re: Is Lisp Dead on Linux? (NO!) 
From:Graham Higgins 
Volume-ID:990821.01 

In article <7ohek0$kn4$1@soapbox.cs.bham.ac.uk>, Aaron Sloman See text
for reply address <Aaron.nospam.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk> wrote:

> "David McClain" <dmcclain@azstarnet.com> writes:
> 
> > Date: Sat, 7 Aug 1999 02:17:19 -0700
> >
> > Well doggone anyway... I wanted to get a Lisp up and running on my new RH 6
> > Linux box and both CMUCL and CLISP bomb out before I can even say hello...
> > After pouring through the archives on CMUCL it appears that I have to wait
> > for a new build (if one ever appears) because of fundamental changes to the
> > Libc.

I have CMUCL running on an RH 6 x686 system. There is a glibc 2.1 build
around, it's one of the "experimental" builds. The running CUMCL
advertises itself as being built on 2Feb99, I *think* it's the linux
longfloat version but couldn't be sure, I was trying out three/four
build versions at the time.

It's rather a shame that there isn't a viable Linux build-from-source
route and it is a little disappointing that it takes so long for new
builds to find their way on to the ftp site.

Still, that acts in POP's favour at the moment.