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From: jeff@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Subject: Re: GCL for OS/2 ??
Message-ID: <DxGq9D.BG.0.macbeth@cogsci.ed.ac.uk>
Keywords: lisp, clisp, gcl
Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh
References: <322C714C.48C0@eng2.uconn.edu> <50pt94$2j0@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 1996 11:22:25 GMT
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In article <50pt94$2j0@nz12.rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> haible@ma2s2.mathematik.uni-karlsruhe.de (Bruno Haible) writes:
>Joe Phillps <jaiger@eng2.uconn.edu> wrote:
>
>> Is there a port of GCL to OS/2 or is there a way I can build it
>> (relatively painlessly) from the sources?
>
>There has been a port of GCL to DOS, but - to my knowledge - not to OS/2.
>Porting GCL is extremely difficult, even the port to Linux was very hairy.

I have not found porting GCL or KCL/AKCL extremely difficult,
and I've ported (alone or with 1 or 2 others) to several different
systems.  Linux may have been very hairy, but Minix, 386BSD, NetBSD,
and FreeBSD were not.  I've also ported to a weird Gould Unix
where the port _was_ hairy, but only because of the segmented
architecture and the OS's reluctacne to let code be loaded at
run-time.

-- jd


