Updated: 24-Sept-2005.
This site provides a Lisp-oriented, i386-architecture Yum repository for Fedora and Red Hat Linux systems. It's a bit sparse right now, but all the basics are here. I'll be building it out as I get more time and energy.
The packages that are part of this repository have little bits of
"value added" integration that either let them play together better or
are better integrated into a Fedora system. For instance, SBCL and
SLIME info files are installed by default and may be invoked from the
command line with info sbcl or info
slime. The CLHS package sets itself up so that SLIME knows
about it when it's installed; all CLHS lookups happen locally rather
than going to the web. All this happens automatically when the RPMs are
installed.
NOTE: Currently, this repository only has support for the newest versions of Yum distributed with Fedora Core 3 and above. If you are using an older version of Yum on Fedora Core 1 and 2, you'll have to wait until I add the support for these.
NOTE: Recently, SBCL appreared as part of Fedora
Extras. The built-in Fedora Extras will conflict with the SBCL RPM
available from this repository. Further, the SBCL in Fedora Extras is
not guaranteed to be compatible with the version of SLIME that is
available here (and as of 24-Sept-2005, it conflicts). If you want to
use the version of SBCL available from Fedora Extras, you should
probably not use FedoraLisp.org. If you want to use FedoraLisp.org, then
you'll have to add a line reading exclude=sbcl to your
/etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-extras.repo file. This will cause
Yum to ignore the version of SBCL in Fedora Extras and use the Fedora
Lisp version instead. In time, I'll try to correct the issue and find
a solution that works well.
The Yum configuration is:
[fedoralisp-stable] name=FedoraLisp.org (stable) baseurl=http://www.fedoralisp.org/yum/fedora/$releasever/$basearch gpgkey=http://www.fedoralisp.org/RPM-GPG-KEY gpgcheck=1
Add this information to a file named something like
fedoralisp-stable.repo in
/etc/yum.repos.d/. To save you the trouble of editing,
you can download the file from here and save it to your
/etc/yum.repos.d/.
The currently supported packages are:
Steel Bank Common Lisp. This is built from the monthly releases. I always enable threading which is only supported on 2.6.x Linux kernels. If you're using FC 3 or 4, you should have no problem.
NOTE: Versions of SBCL prior to 0.9.5 do not work with the memory randomization security features of recent 2.6.x Linux kernels, including the latest standard Fedora kernels for FC3 and FC4. To make older versions of SBCL work, you need to (as root):
echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/randomize_va_space
Superior Lisp Interaction Mode for Emacs. This is compiled from
CVS. Historically, SBCL and SLIME have been brittle when used
together, with changes in SBCL often breaking SLIME. As I release a
new SBCL, I'll try to ensure that I release an updated, compatible
SLIME. Note that SLIME installs into
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/slime/ and can be used easily
by anyone on the machine. Simply add:
(setq inferior-lisp-program "sbcl") (require 'slime) (slime-setup)
to your .emacs file to get started. Note that this
installation also associates *.asd files (ASDF system
definitions) with lisp-mode. See
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/slime-mode-init.el
for more information.
The Common Lisp HyperSpec. This package contains a full copy of the
CLHS. It installs locally into
/usr/share/doc/clhs-<version>. It also
includes a small integration with SLIME (contained in
/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.d/clhs-init.el)
that directs SLIME to the local copy for lookups invoked with
C-c C-d h.
This is Marc Battyani's mod_lisp Apache module implementing a
connection to a persistent Lisp process. See the mod_lisp page on Fractal Concept. You'll have
to edit /etc/httpd/conf.d/lisp.conf appropriately for
your configuration. Remember to restart the server with
/usr/sbin/apachectl restart if it's already running.
I regret that I'm unable to provide assistance for this repository at this time. If you find something amiss, however, please be sure to report it so I can correct it for the next guy. If you have suggestions for other code that would be appropriate for this repository, please let me know. Note that this repository is specifically trying to avoid overlapping with ASDF-Install. If a package is available using ASDF-Install, it's probably best to use that mechanism to install it rather than trying to repackage it for Yum.
In any case, you can contact me at dave findinglisp
com.