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9:33:37
frgo
I am following conversations on #sicl and, as always, I am fascinated by all the subjects that are coming up there.
13:00:19
frgo
::notify Bike See https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp/issues/638 : BUG: Input #<LEXICAL-LOCATION G15563251> not previously defined
13:23:39
drmeister
It has one comment already "FANCY! SUPER NIFTY" - so I'm counting it as a success.
13:24:18
drmeister
ACTION notes that being in all caps the comment is very apropos to the subject matter.
13:26:41
Shinmera
ACTION pulls up his sleeves and gets ready to write a typical negative youtube comment
13:30:08
drmeister
On another topic: I'm writing something that is essentially a build system for a complex scientific calculation. I'm structuring it like the way I presume 'waf' works - building a dependency tree of nodes.
13:34:33
Shinmera
Well, it gets a bit more complicated when you want a boild system that can resolve version constraints
13:37:36
jackdaniel
here is my jab at specifying file format for it: https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/dkochmanski/esdf/blob/master/esdf.org
13:40:56
drmeister
On yet another topic: I've made no progress on how to find a specific section in an ELF .so file that is loaded into memory with dlopen.
13:43:42
Shinmera
This one, to be specific, since there seems to be a another one. http://www.mr511.de/software/english.html
13:45:18
Shinmera
Actually not sure if that's the same one as what's included in https://sourceware.org/elfutils/
15:25:20
pfdietz
Also the whole solve the problem of aging thing was one of the stronger hooks I've seen in a lisp talk.
15:30:48
Bike
drmeister: so if you look at one of the weird empty frames for print-object you'll see that the stream is actually a file-stream for /dev/null. As it happens, when you print with circularity, everything actually prints twice- one "dry run" to /dev/null probably to get all the #n# right, before the actual one.
15:30:48
Colleen
Bike: frgo said 2 hours, 30 minutes ago: See https://github.com/clasp-developers/clasp/issues/638 : BUG: Input #<LEXICAL-LOCATION G15563251> not previously defined
15:31:34
Bike
drmeister: and the error from print-unreadable-object is apparently signaled during this first dry run print.
15:32:11
Bike
drmeister: that's half the problem. now i think the display weirdness is because sldb is trying to print the objects to /dev/null instead of where it should actually be going. i dug around but couldn't work out why it would be doing that, or if it actually is.
15:56:00
drmeister
Dammit - in the talk I said it takes half-an-hour to build clasp. I was wrong about that - it's about 50min right now.