I will work on this - the basic problem is that defsystem thinks that for CLISP the filenames should end in .lsp not .cl so it does not find any of the source files.
cl-acl-compat does not provide any of the ACL functions that are used in Prism. These functions are not in the ANSI standard. They are mainly operating system functions. The way to fix this is to add to Prism conditionals for other lisps which hopefully have similar extensions. Some of these are unnecessary in other Lisp systems. I will work on it.
The make-prism.cl file is used to build binaries, either dumped lisp images or standalone binaries. It is completely ACL specific. I will rename it make-prism-acl.cl and work on creating similar make-prism files for other lisps.
Regarding the directory tree structure, it reflects the fact that Prism is composed from several subsystems, some of which (slik and dicom especially) should be packaged separately and the packaging should just include the package dependencies. If that is done right, it should be possible to rewrite the compile and binary generation to handle it. I'll work on breaking up the code into separate units, then someone who understands the Debian packaging can help with the install scripts.
An alternative name for uw-prism could be rtp-prism-uw but uw-prism is probably ok too.
I'm really pleased with your interest in this project. I've subscribed to debian-med so no need to send to me separately unless you want to send a private message.
Ira On 07/14/2011 10:36 AM, Thorsten Alteholz wrote:
(I would love if some volunteer would prove me wrong and startsThat is my prompt. I sticked by the user reference manual and ignored the requirement of Allegro Common Lisp. I used clisp and was able to load the config file. During (mk:compile-system :prism) lots of warnings like: ; - Source file prism/src/prism.lsp not found, not loading. WARNUNG: Source file "prism/src/prism.lsp" do not exist. Continue, ignoring missing files. appeared but no error. As make-prism.cl contains some Allegro expressions, I installed cl-acl-compat and added (require 'acl-compat) to make-prism.cl Unfortunately this results in: MK:DEFSYSTEM: missing system ACL-COMPAT. And this is the point where my lisp knowledge ends ... If anybody has any clue, I named the package uw-prism (there are lots of other prisms in Debian) and put everything into the repository @Ira: Is there any chance that you might change the way you release new versions of prism? I admit that there are advantages of putting everything in a directory structure like <year>/<month>/<file>. Unfortunately the automatic new-version-detection of Debian can not handle this structure very well ... Thorsten
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