Liquid Common Lisp 5.0 Release and Installation Notes

Contents

Copyright and Trademarks

1 - Product Information

1.1 - Product and version

1.2 - Supported platforms and operating systems

1.3 - Hardware and software requirements

1.3.1 - Disk space requirements
1.3.2 - System Requirements
1.3.3 - Software requirements

2 - Installation

2.1 - Obtaining the Liquid Common Lisp distribution

2.2 - Extracting product files

2.3 - Contents of the distribution

2.3.1 - The app-defaults directory
2.3.2 - The config directory
2.3.3 - The etc directory
2.3.4 - The elisp directory
2.3.5 - The examples directory
2.3.6 - The manual directory
2.3.7 - The patches directory
2.3.8 - The submodules directory

2.4 - Installing Liquid Common Lisp

2.5 - Using the online documentation

3 - Configuration

3.1 - Configuring Liquid Common Lisp software

3.1.1 - Setting the *lispworks-directory* variable
3.1.2 - Loading patches
3.1.3 - Loading submodules
load-submodule
submodule-loaded-p
3.1.4 - Linking with X and Motif libraries
capi:ensure-motif-libraries
capi:*motif-libraries*
3.1.5 - Saving a configured image

3.2 - Starting the Liquid Common Lisp environment

env:start-environment

4 - Getting Started with CLIM 2.0

4.1 - Extracting CLIM 2.0
4.2 - Contents of the distribution
4.3 - Using the online documentation
4.4 - Running the CLIM demos

5 - Changes, Additions, and Incompatibilities

5.1 - Changes in this release

5.1.1 - Product name changed to Liquid Common Lisp

5.1.2 - General changes to software components

5.1.3 - General changes to Lisp

5.1.4 - Changes to packages

5.1.5 - Change to default value of :full-gc argument to disksave

5.1.6 - New variable *perfect-float-output-p*

*perfect-float-output-p*

5.1.7 - New print control variables

*trace-print-level* *trace-print-length*

*inspect-print-level* *inspect-print-length**

*describe-print-level* *describe-print-length*

5.1.8 - Changes to the compiler

*warn-if-toplevel-proclaim*

compile-file-if-needed

5.1.9 - New function function-lambda-list

function-lambda-list

5.1.10 - Fix for file-proclaim

5.1.11 - New find-callers module

find-callers

find-code-names

map-procedure-objects

5.1.12 - New tcp-sockets module

gethostbyname

make-tcp-socket

accept-tcp-stream-connection

accept-tcp-socket

connect-to-tcp-stream

5.1.13 - Changes to the debugger

5.1.14 - Changes to the inspector

5.1.14.1 - Describe
5.1.14.2 - Inspect

*inspect-recursively*

5.1.15 - Changes to GUI tools

5.1.16 - Changes to the editor

5.1.17 - Compiler bug fixed

5.1.18 - CAPI now has native Motif interface

5.1.19 - Other CAPI changes

5.2 - Known restrictions and problems

5.2.1 - Restrictions in the CAPI
5.2.2 - Restrictions with SGI operating systems and processors

5.3 - Documentation addenda

5.3.1 - Introduction

5.3.2 - The backtrace logging facility

5.3.2.1 - Using the Backtrace Logging Facility
5.3.2.2 - Dynamic closures and the backtrace logging facility
5.3.2.3 - Backtrace logging functions

start-backtrace-logging

stop-backtrace-logging

summarize-backtrace-logging

5.3.3 - The performance monitor

5.3.3.1 - Using the performance monitor
5.3.3.2 - Understanding performance monitoring output
5.3.3.3 - Performance monitoring functions

monitor-functions

monitor-inclusive-consing

monitor-exclusive-consing

monitor-inclusive-consing

monitor-inclusive-time

monitor-exclusive-time

monitor-number-of-calls

monitor-processes-predicate

print-monitor

print-monitors

reset-monitor

reset-monitors

start-monitoring

stop-monitoring

summarize-monitors

unmonitor-functions

with-monitored-definitions

with-monitoring

6 - Harlequin Support

6.1 - How to reach Harlequin Support

Liquid Common Lisp 5.0 Release and Installation Notes - 9 JUN 1997

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