[cmucl-help] help a newbee to start cmucl

[Carl Shapiro]

On Sun, Aug 2, 2015 at 12:45 PM, Bharat Shetty <bshetty at gmail.com> wrote:

> went through the install page again and realised lot of the errors using
> henlock were due to the 64 bit motifd shipped with the package. Replacing
> this with the 32 bit version reduced the errors to 1 - missing libXm.so.4
> which might be available with libmotif4. Cannot install this currently ..
> aptitude is having some issues as well :(
>

I usually use Open Motif (the direct descendent of the OSF/Motif) instead
of Lesstif (an API-compatible re-implementation of OSF/Motif).

Debian provides packages for Open Motif...

https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=motif

However, for the task at hand, you should not need any flavor Motif as CLM,
which depends on Motif, is not required for running Hemlock.  Maybe you
will have more luck if you skip the (require :clm) step that you reported
above?


> would it be better to move to freebsd/netbsd with cmucl/slime/emacs ?
>

That depends on what you goal is.  Are you able to record a backtrace from
the division by zero error you get when running slime?  If all you want is
an editor to interact with CMUCL, that might be easy enough to fix, and
such a fix can save you the inconvenience of having to install another
operating system.