stumpwm (clisp version) error

Sat, Jul 05, 2008 at 09:47:11PM -0400, David T Harris wrote:
Greetings all,
I just recently editting the Makefile for /usr/ports/lang/clisp
for the 4.3 version of BSD to allow building of mit-clx.
This worked, however, after I built stumpwm (via source)
and the instructions here [1] stumpwm fails to load. After
I exit X (if I start via startx) then I get the following error
message:
>
/home/david/bin/stumpwm: operating system error during load of initialization file `/home/david/bin/stumpwm'
[spvw_memfile.d:1685] errno = EFAULT: Bad address.
>
I did see a the error in the openbsd ports mailing list
archive but it didn't explain anything about that error. [3]
>
Any ideas as to what could be causing this error and/or how
to possibly fix this?

Ditch clisp, port it to a reasonable lisp dialect.

clisp expects to be able to do mmap at a fixed address to reload a former
image. This can't work on BSD.

That's one reason why I did a port of embeddable common lisp (ecl). It's
probably not as optimized, but it's WAYS cleaner code that doesn't try
to play games with the S *and compiles on most architectures*.

Contrast that with clisp, which doesn't really work on i386, is unported
anywhere else.

I talked to the gnu clisp people. they're aware of the issue, they don't
have the man power to do it, and basically, they don't care, since it
runs on linux/i386