LispWorks Personal on FreeBSD 7

[N. Raghavendra]

Recently I had some difficulty in installing the Common Lisp
implementation LispWorks Personal 5.1 on FreeBSD 7, and am posting my
experience here.  It may be useful to others, if any, interested in
running this CL implementation on FreeBSD 7.  The problem was due to
the fact that LW depends on several libraries from FreeBSD 5 and 6.
Following suggestions on the LW mailing list, the right installation
sequence seems to be:

1. Ensure that the kernel options `COMPAT_FREEBSD5' and
   `COMPAT_FREEBSD6' are on.

2. Install the ports `misc/compat5x' and `misc/compat6x'.

3. Install the package `compatXm-6.3_1.tgz'.

4. Install the package `lispworks-personal-5.1.tgz'.

The packages in 3 and 4 are available from the LispWorks FTP server.
There's more information in the LW Knowledge Base article at
http://www.lispworks.com/kb/67634814074628b180257490005cb9d3.html and
in the LW mailing list thread
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.lisp.lispworks.general/8422 which also
describes some minor tweaking of LD_LIBRARY_PATH that was needed.

Raghavendra.

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