# even though you have stuff in your initialization files
# which makes it behave in such a non-standard way that
# it keeps the build from working
-# "sbcl --noprogrammer"
+# "sbcl --disable-debugger"
# to use an existing SBCL binary as a cross-compilation host
-# and tell it to handle errors as best it can by itself,
-# without trying to use *DEBUG-IO* to ask for help from
-# the programmer
+# and tell it to handle errors as best it can by itself
+# (probably by dying with an error code) instead of waiting
+# endlessly for a programmer to help it out with input
+# on *DEBUG-IO*
# "lisp -batch" to use an existing CMU CL binary as a cross-compilation host
# "lisp -noinit -batch"
# to use an existing CMU CL binary as a cross-compilation host
# when you have weird things in your .cmucl-init file
-# Someday CLISP should work
-# "clisp"
-# but as of sbcl-0.7.1.17, it still doesn't. (SBCL's fault: too much
-# unportable code!)
+# "openmcl --batch"
+# to use an OpenMCL binary as a cross-compilation host
#
# FIXME: Make a more sophisticated command line parser, probably
# accepting "sh make.sh --xc-host foolisp" instead of the
# require a second pass, just testing at build-the-cross-compiler time
# whether the cross-compilation host returns suitable values from
# UPGRADED-ARRAY-ELEMENT-TYPE?)
-export SBCL_XC_HOST="${1:-sbcl --noprogrammer}"
+# FIXME: --noprogrammer was deprecated in sbcl-0.7.5, replaced by
+# --disable-debugger. We still use the old form here because the
+# change was not preannounced, and it would be rude to make our new
+# version of SBCL unbootstrappable by immediately prior versions.
+# But in a year or so the --noprogrammer here can change to
+# --disable-debugger (and the deprecated --noprogrammer support can
+# go away completely).
+SBCL_XC_HOST="${1:-sbcl --noprogrammer}"
+export SBCL_XC_HOST
echo //SBCL_XC_HOST=\"$SBCL_XC_HOST\"
# If you're cross-compiling, you should probably just walk through the
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