Bug#693682: Core compression

[Philipp Marek]

>   This is really strange:
...
> Is :SB-CORE-COMPRESSION part of your *features* 
no, it isn't.

> and you're using the
> debian binary (easiest to spot if the version in the MOTD has .debian at
> the end)?
yes.


I tried to do the same as you:


$ sbcl --no-sysinit --no-userinit
This is SBCL 1.1.1.0.debian, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.

SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
BSD-style licenses.  See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
distribution for more information.
* *features*

(:ALIEN-CALLBACKS :ANSI-CL :C-STACK-IS-CONTROL-STACK :COMMON-LISP
 :COMPARE-AND-SWAP-VOPS :COMPLEX-FLOAT-VOPS :CYCLE-COUNTER :ELF :FLOAT-EQL-
VOPS
 :GENCGC :IEEE-FLOATING-POINT :INLINE-CONSTANTS :LARGEFILE :LINKAGE-TABLE
 :LINUX :LITTLE-ENDIAN :MEMORY-BARRIER-VOPS :MULTIPLY-HIGH-VOPS
 :OS-PROVIDES-BLKSIZE-T :OS-PROVIDES-DLADDR :OS-PROVIDES-DLOPEN
 :OS-PROVIDES-GETPROTOBY-R :OS-PROVIDES-POLL :OS-PROVIDES-PUTWC
 :OS-PROVIDES-SUSECONDS-T :RAW-INSTANCE-INIT-VOPS :SB-DOC :SB-EVAL :SB-FUTEX
 :SB-LDB :SB-PACKAGE-LOCKS :SB-SOURCE-LOCATIONS :SB-TEST :SB-THREAD :SB-
UNICODE
 :SBCL :STACK-ALLOCATABLE-CLOSURES :STACK-ALLOCATABLE-FIXED-OBJECTS
 :STACK-ALLOCATABLE-LISTS :STACK-ALLOCATABLE-VECTORS
 :STACK-GROWS-DOWNWARD-NOT-UPWARD :UNIX :UNWIND-TO-FRAME-AND-CALL-VOP 
:X86-64)
* (save-lisp-and-die "/tmp/foo"  :compression 9)

debugger invoked on a SIMPLE-ERROR in thread
#<THREAD "main thread" RUNNING {10029E9143}>:
  Unable to save compressed core: this runtime was not built with zlib 
support

Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:EXIT) to exit from SBCL.

restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
  0: [ABORT] Exit debugger, returning



ii  sbcl  2:1.1.1.0-1  amd64  Common Lisp compiler and development system


# ls -al /usr/lib/sbcl/sbcl.core 
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 44073008 Nov 17 06:31 /usr/lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
# md5sum /usr/lib/sbcl/sbcl.core 
e44d7df9d4cdbfd9228c6db270adc347  /usr/lib/sbcl/sbcl.core
# md5sum /usr/bin/sbcl 
538bc78f48e0cbaa27c079e3ecd0d943  /usr/bin/sbcl
# ls -la /usr/bin/sbcl
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 296936 Nov 17 06:31 /usr/bin/sbcl