Installing the gcl-1.0 binaries on Linux
========================================

1. Get gcl-1.0-linux-bin.tar.gz .
2. Unpack:
      su
      (cd / ; tar xvfz -) < gcl-1.0-linux-bin.tar.gz


Installing gcl-1.0 on Linux from source
=======================================

1. Get gcl-1.0.tar.gz and gcl-1.0-linux.tar.gz .
2. Unpack the sources:
      tar xvfz gcl-1.0.tar.gz
3. Unpack and apply the Linux patches:
      tar xvfz gcl-1.0-linux.tar.gz
      patch -p0 < gcl-1.0-diffs
4. Build GCL, as described in the README:
      cd gcl-1.0
      add-defs 386-linux
      make
5. Install:
      su
      make install


Known bugs
==========

1.

(FORMAT NIL "~5,3F" (QUOTE A))
results in an error instead of returning "A"

2.

(format nil "~9,2,1E" 3.14159E8)
returns "  3.14L+8" instead of "  3.14E+8"
(The exponent marker should be the same as when PRIN1 is called!)

3.

(FORMAT NIL "~1{~:}" "-~s-" (QUOTE (1 2)) 3)
results in an error instead of returning "-1-"

4.

Why can't I close two-way streams?

>(close (make-two-way-stream (make-string-input-stream "blabla")
                             *standard-output*))

Error: Cannot close the standard input.
Fast links are on: do (use-fast-links nil) for debugging
Error signalled by CLOSE.

5.

(read-char-no-hang (make-string-input-stream "") nil "eof")
returns NIL instead of "eof"

6.

(copy-alist '(a b))
results in an error instead of returning the equivalent of (copy-list '(a b))

7.

(setf (subseq "aaaxxxccc" 3 6) "bbb")
returns "aaabbbccc" instead of "bbb"

8.

(format (make-array 10 :element-type 'string-char :fill-pointer 0) "XXX")
returns "XXX" instead of NIL

9.

(string 32)
returns " " instead of signalling an error.

10.

(subtypep '(integer 1 (5)) '(mod 5))
returns the values NIL; T which is definitely wrong.

11.

(LOG 3 0)
returns 0 instead of signalling an error.

12.

(find-package "system")
returns #<"SYSTEM" package> instead of NIL