Failure as build host for SBCL

[Mark Evenson]

Using ABCL as a build host for SBCL via

   sbcl-1.0.55$ sh make.sh --xc-host=abcl

fails in the make-host-2 phase for creating target object files

; compiling file "/Users/evenson/work/sbcl/src/code/kernel.lisp" (written 23 MAR 2012 07:01:13 AM):
; x-compiling (IN-PACKAGE "SB!KERNEL")
; x-compiling (DEFUN GET-HEADER-DATA ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN SET-HEADER-DATA ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN GET-CLOSURE-LENGTH ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN LOWTAG-OF ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN WIDETAG-OF ...)
; x-compiling (DECLAIM (INLINE %OTHER-POINTER-WIDETAG))
; x-compiling (DEFUN %OTHER-POINTER-WIDETAG ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN VECTOR-SAP ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN BINDING-STACK-POINTER-SAP ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN DYNAMIC-SPACE-FREE-POINTER ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN CONTROL-STACK-POINTER-SAP ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN FUN-SUBTYPE ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN (SETF FUN-SUBTYPE) ...)
; x-compiling (DECLAIM (INLINE SIMPLE-FUN-P))
; x-compiling (DEFUN SIMPLE-FUN-P ...)
; x-compiling (DEFTYPE SIMPLE-FUN ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN %SIMPLE-FUN-DOC ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN (SETF %SIMPLE-FUN-DOC) ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN %SIMPLE-FUN-XREFS ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN %SIMPLE-FUN-ARGLIST ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN (SETF %SIMPLE-FUN-ARGLIST) ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN %SIMPLE-FUN-NAME ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN (SETF %SIMPLE-FUN-NAME) ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN %SIMPLE-FUN-TYPE ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN %SIMPLE-FUN-NEXT ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN %SIMPLE-FUN-SELF ...)
; x-compiling (DECLAIM (INLINE CLOSUREP))
; x-compiling (DEFUN CLOSUREP ...)
; x-compiling (DEFTYPE CLOSURE ...)
; x-compiling (DEFMACRO DO-CLOSURE-VALUES ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN %CLOSURE-VALUES ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN %CLOSURE-FUN ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN %CLOSURE-INDEX-REF ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN SB!C::VECTOR-LENGTH ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN ALLOCATE-VECTOR ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN MAKE-ARRAY-HEADER ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN CODE-INSTRUCTIONS ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN CODE-HEADER-REF ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN CODE-HEADER-SET ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN %VECTOR-RAW-BITS ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN %SET-VECTOR-RAW-BITS ...)
; x-compiling (DEFUN MAKE-SINGLE-FLOAT ...)
Error loading /Users/evenson/work/sbcl/src/cold/compile-cold-sbcl.lisp at line 27 (offset 1039)
#<THREAD "interpreter" {45A8BF4}>: Debugger invoked on condition of type TYPE-ERROR
  The value #(((:QWORD . -4294967296) . #<SB!ASSEM:LABEL 1>) ((:QWORD . 4294967294) . #<SB!ASSEM:LABEL 2>)) is not of type SIMPLE-VECTOR.
Restarts:
  0: TOP-LEVEL Return to top level.
[1] SB!KERNEL(16): ; 
                   ; compilation unit aborted
                   ;   caught 1 fatal ERROR condition

[Mark Evenson]

ABCL now works as a build host with post-1.1.5 SBCL source as of (at least) r14426.

Unknown as to when and why this started working again.