From 086876422b7c047dabc910cfb5d9168dec82e66c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ram <ram> Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1993 17:09:19 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Now called net-README.txt, not sunos-README.txt, pending eventual HP discussion. Updated for 17c. Added an example of installation and configuration. Updated some sizes. --- general-info/net-README.txt | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 70 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/general-info/net-README.txt b/general-info/net-README.txt index 26dda3e72..a8a1a7599 100644 --- a/general-info/net-README.txt +++ b/general-info/net-README.txt @@ -33,25 +33,24 @@ FTP compressed tar archives in binary mode. To extract, "cd" to the directory that is to be the root of the tree, then type: uncompress <file.tar.Z | tar xf - . -As of 12/11/92, the latest SunOS Sparc release is: - 17b-sun4c_41.tar.Z (6.8 meg) - 17b-extra-sun4c_41.tar.Z (3.6 meg) +As of 11/11/93, the latest SunOS Sparc release is: + 17c-sunos.tar.Z (6.6 meg) + 17c-extra-sunos.tar.Z (3.9 meg) The first file holds binaries and documentation for the basic Lisp system, while the second `-extra' file contains the Hemlock editor, the Motif toolkit, the graphical debugger and the CLX interface to X11. The basic configuration -takes 16 megabytes of disk space; adding the extras takes another 8 megabytes. +takes 15 megabytes of disk space; adding the extras takes another 8 megabytes. For installation directions, see the section "site initialization". -If poor network connections make it difficult to transfer a 10 meg file, the +If poor network connections make it difficult to transfer a 7 meg file, the release is also available split into 2 megabyte chunks, suffixed `.0', `.1', etc. To extract from multiple files, use: cat file.tar.Z.* | uncompress | tar xf - . The release area also contains source distributions and other binary distributions. A listing of the current contents of the release area is in -FILES. Major release announcements will be made to comp.lang.lisp until there -is enough volume to warrant a comp.lang.lisp.cmu. +FILES. Major release announcements will be made to comp.lang.lisp. SunOS credit: @@ -75,6 +74,68 @@ library:lisp.core. To avoid overwriting the running Lisp image, any existing image is renamed to `lisp.core.BAK'; this file may be manually deleted to save disk space. +Note: In order to use Motif (and the graphical debugger) with X servers from +non-OSF vendors (like Sun) you may need to set the environment variable +XKEYSYMDB to point to the file lib/XKeySymDB. Otherwise, you will get many +error messages every time a new connection is opened to the CMU CL motifd. +This file is read by the X11R5 Xt in order to augment the keysym database with +certain OSF vendor keysyms that Motif wants to use. If you get errors about +being unable to start the Motif server, try setting DISPLAY to the full +hostname, like: + lisp-rt1.slisp.cs.cmu.edu:0 + +and delete any .motif-socket-* files in /tmp. + + +Installation example (assuming the distribution files are in the cwd): + + % mkdir cmucl + % cd cmucl + % zcat ../17c-sunos.tar.Z | tar xf - + % zcat ../17c-extra-sunos.tar.Z | tar xf - + % cd lib + % setenv CMUCLLIB `pwd` + % setenv XKEYSYMDB `pwd` + % cd ../bin + % setenv PATH $PATH":"`pwd` + +Now you can run the basic Lisp: + % lisp + CMU Common Lisp 17c, running on lisp-sun1.slisp.cs.cmu.edu + Send bug reports and questions to your local CMU CL maintainer, or to + cmucl-bugs@cs.cmu.edu. + Loaded subsystems: + Python 1.0, target SPARCstation/Sun 4 + CLOS based on PCL version: September 16 92 PCL (f) + common-lisp-user> (quit) + +Use config to load optional subsystems: + % ../lib/config + ; Loading #p"library:config.lisp". + 1: specify result file (currently "library:lisp.core") + 2: toggle loading of the CLX X library, currently enabled. + 3: toggle loading of Motif and the graphical debugger, currently enabled. + 4: toggle loading the Hemlock editor, currently enabled. + 5: specify some site-specific file to load. + 6: configure according to current options. + 7: abort the configuration process. + + Option number: 6 + + ;; Loading #p".../lib/subsystems/clx-library.sparcf". + ;; Loading #p".../lib/subsystems/clm-library.sparcf". + ;; Loading #p".../lib/subsystems/hemlock-library.sparcf". + Saved ".../foo/lib/lisp.core" as ".../foo/lib/lisp.core.BAK". + [Doing purification: Done.] + [Undoing binding stack... done] + [Saving current lisp image into .../foo/lib/lisp.core: + Writing 14804416 bytes from the Read-Only space at 0x00200000. + Writing 3542680 bytes from the Static space at 0x0C000000. + Writing 1464 bytes from the Dynamic space at 0x10000000. + done.] + % + + SunOS/SPARC Notes: With this release, CMU CL should require no special effort to run on Sparc10's @@ -108,8 +169,8 @@ packages: PCL and CLX. Although these packages are copyrighted, they may be freely distributed without any licensing agreement or fee. The release area contains a source distribution, which is an image of all the -".lisp" source files used to build version 17b: - 17b-source.tar.Z (4.9 meg) +".lisp" source files used to build version 17c: + 17c-source.tar.Z (4.9 meg) All of our files (including the release area) are actually in the AFS file system. On the release machines, the FTP server's home is the release -- GitLab