Re: Making BUILD-ABCL an ASDF package (plus draft changes)

MAKE-TAGS working on OSX.

Additional patch to actually use ASDF:COMPONENT-PATHNAME in the 
generation of TAGS via BUILD-ABCL:MAKE-TAGS.

diff -r fd318f86a595 build-abcl.lisp
--- a/build-abcl.lisp	Wed Aug 27 13:54:16 2008 +0200
+++ b/build-abcl.lisp	Wed Aug 27 20:54:46 2008 +0200
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@

 (defpackage build-abcl
   (:use "COMMON-LISP")
-  (:export #:build-abcl #:make-dist)
+  (:export #:build-abcl #:make-dist
+	   #:make-tags) ; Experimental
   (:nicknames #:build-abcl)
   #+abcl (:import-from #:extensions #:run-shell-command #:probe-directory)
   #+allegro (:import-from #:excl #:probe-directory)
@@ -630,9 +631,15 @@
         (format t "~A returned ~S~%" command status)))))

 ;;; BEGIN Experimental section
-
-(defun make-tags (&key (directory (asdf:find-system :build-abcl)))
+(defun make-tags (&key 
+		  (directory (asdf:component-pathname 
+			      (asdf:find-system :build-abcl))))
   "Try to make a TAGS for ABCL if etags(1L), find(1), xargs(1), and

Re: Making BUILD-ABCL an ASDF package (plus draft changes)

Given our recent Ant system related changes, does the patch below still apply?

Bye,

Erik.

2008/8/27 Mark Evenson <evenson <at> panix.com>:
> Attached please find patches to ABCL for the Lisp build system that I find
> quite useful (I don't really use the Ant build system, but maybe I am
> atypical).
>
> This change:
>
>  o  Provides an ASDF description for BUILD-ABCL, to make building
>     ABCL easier from other Lisps (sbcl, clisp tested) and ABCL itself.  Use
> of ASDF is used to provide location for components in BUILD-ABCL.
>
>  o  a new special BUILD-ABCL::*ADDITIONAL-JARS* which contains a list of
> pathnames to include on the CLASSPATH when using the UNIX 'abcl' shell
> script entry point (BUILD-ABCL::MAKE-LAUNCH-SCRIPT).  This does not work
> under WIN32 currently.  An example of loading Alan Ruttenburg's JSS (aka
> 'invoke.lisp') is included.
>
>  o  Reorders 'build-abcl.lisp' to get all the special variables declared
> before attempting to load BUILD-ABCL::*CUSTOMIZATIONS-FILE*
>
>
>  o  The default launch script no longer includes the ABCL 'src' directory,
> relying purely on the stuff in 'abcl.jar'.  This seems to provide a two
> order of magnitude speed-up on ABCL boot time once the JAR gets mapped into