gcl fail

[Robert Goldman]

> 
> On Jan 31, 2012, at 21:47, Phil Dobbin wrote:
> 
>> :info:build plt.h:1: error: ?_getc? undeclared here (not in a function)
>> :info:build plt.h:2: error: ?_putc? undeclared here (not in a function)
> 
> This was mentioned here as well:
> 
> https://trac.macports.org/ticket/12906#comment:7
> 
> The maintainer of this port has not been active for 3.5 years:
> 
> http://cia.vc/stats/author/waqar@macports.org
> 
> The latest version of the software is 6.5 years old:
> 
> http://www.gnu.org/software/gcl/
> 
> So this may be a lost cause.
> 
> However, you could check to see if any other package managers, for OS X or other OSes, has managed to package this software; if so, maybe we can borrow their patches.
> 

Given the availability of SBCL, clisp, ecl and abcl Common Lisp
implementations, if gcl is dead it would probably be reasonable to just
give up on it.

Cheers,
r