I'll better happy to take a look at the sqlite problem. However, it's not
clear to me what the error is.

Could you post the actual error you're seeing, and the code you wrote?

Regards,
Elias

Den tis 23 feb. 2021 20:18Dr. Jürgen Sauermann <mail@jürgen-sauermann.de>
skrev:

> Hi John,
>
> see below.
>
> Best Regards,
> Jürgen
>
>
> On 2/22/21 11:18 PM, edxmail-jo...@usa.net wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've just spent a couple of days working to get gnu-apl up and running
> under OS X Catalina. Good progress has been made, but I'm unsure if I have
> a stable and fully functioning copy of the interpreter.
>
> Welcome to GNU APL.
>
> During this exercise, I encountered four experiences that may indicate
> bugs. They are:
>
>    1. Build Issue?: Newly saved workspaces rejected as ancient by
>    interpreter
>
> This can only happens if the interpreter (-binary) that )SAVEd the WS
> is different from the interpreter thast )LOADs it. Note that ./configure
> may change the reference numbers (= SVN versions) that were used
> to compare the workspace versions.
>
>
>    1. Quirk?: Sqlite3 connection error message comes and goes
>
> That would be a question for Elias, I believe
>
>
>    1. Mystery?: Quad-Plot usage
>
> see *info apl* (chapter 2.30) or online here:
>
> https://www.gnu.org/software/apl/apl.html#Section-2_002e30
>
>
>    1. Bug?: ⎕SI for non function execution errors?
>
>
> Not sure what you mean:
>
> *      )SIC*
> *      ÷0*
> *DOMAIN ERROR*
> *      ÷0*
> *      ^*
> *      4 ⎕CR ⎕SI 4*
> *┏→━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┓*
> *┃┏→━━━━━━━┓ ┏→━━━━━━━━━━┓┃*
> *┃┃      ÷0┃ ┃4 ⎕CR ⎕SI 4┃┃*
> *┃┗━━━━━━━━┛ ┗━━━━━━━━━━━┛┃*
> *┗∊━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━┛*
>
> I'm unfamiliar with the gnu packaging tools and completely overwhelmed by
> this enormous code base. Thus, I apologize in advance for any limitations
> or mistakes in this report.
>
> Regards,
> John Helm
>
> ------------------------------
>
>
>
> 1) Build Issue: Newly saved workspaces warned as ancient by interpreter
>
> The "standard" compile and install sequence using the apl-1.8.tar.gz
> tarball does not compile correctly on OS X Catalina.
>
> The problem is configure runs svn commands to write a file
> ./src/buildtag.hh and these commands fail because the tarball is not an SVN
> repo. The resulting binary compiles without a build number. The net result
> is workspaces are saved with a null build number, and )LOADing these files
> fails with the following message:
>
>     WARNING: this workspace was )SAVEd with a VERY old SVN version of GNU
> APL.
>     Expect problems, in particular when the )SI was not clear.
>     In case of problems, please try )COPY instead of )LOAD.
>     DOMAIN ERROR+
>
>
>     immediate_execution() caught APL error 0x50004 (DOMAIN ERROR)
>
>
> Here are some details from the compilations:
>
>
> A) SVN errors emitted when running configure on the standard tarball
> ================================================================
>
>     configure: creating ./src//buildtag.hh
>     svn: E155007: '/Users/jlh/.local/etc/repos/apl-1.8/src/Archive.cc' is
> not a working copy
>     configure: creating ./src/makefile.h
>     configure: creating ./src/configure_args.cc
>
>     # Note SVN number missing in --version report
>
>     jlh@MacBook-XNOR apl-1.8 % apl --version
>     BUILDTAG:
>     ---------
>         Project:        GNU APL
>         Version / SVN:  1.8 / Unversioned directory
>         Build Date:     2021-02-22 17:48:39 UTC
>         Build OS:       Darwin 19.6.0 x86_64
>         config.status:  '--includedir=/opt/local/'
> '--with-sqlite3=/opt/local/' '--with-postgresql=no'
>         Archive SVN:
>      jlh@MacBook-XNOR apl-1.8 %
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>
>     ⍝ Create a workspace, save, and reload it to surface error
>
>               )wsid
>     IS CLEAR WS
>           ∇hello
>     [1] 'hello world!'
>     [2] ∇
>           )wsid hello
>     WAS CLEAR WS
>           )save
>     2021-02-22  12:58:15 (GMT-5) hello
>           )clear
>     CLEAR WS
>           )load hello
>     WARNING: this workspace was )SAVEd with a VERY old SVN version of GNU
> APL.
>     Expect problems, in particular when the )SI was not clear.
>     In case of problems, please try )COPY instead of )LOAD.
>     SAVED 2021-02-22 12:58:15 (GMT-5)
>
>
> ================================================================
> B) Pull down svn trunk and configure, make, etc...
>
>
>     # note the SVN number is now included
>
>     jlh@MacBook-XNOR trunk % apl --version
>     BUILDTAG:
>     ---------
>         Project:        GNU APL
>         Version / SVN:  1.8 / 1439M
>         Build Date:     2021-02-22 18:01:34 UTC
>         Build OS:       Darwin 19.6.0 x86_64
>         config.status:  '--includedir=/opt/local/'
> '--with-sqlite3=/opt/local/' '--with-postgresql=no'
>         Archive SVN:    1433
>     jlh@MacBook-XNOR trunk %
>
> ----
>
>     ⍝ Load the workspace made by the version with a null SVN archive
> number
>
>           )load hello
>     WARNING: this workspace was )SAVEd with a VERY old SVN version of GNU
> APL.
>     Expect problems, in particular when the )SI was not clear.
>     In case of problems, please try )COPY instead of )LOAD.
>     DOMAIN ERROR+
>
>
>     ⍝ overwrite with a new one, the problem is gone.
>
>     immediate_execution() caught APL error 0x50004 (DOMAIN ERROR)
>           ∇hello
>     [1] 'Hello World!'
>     [2] ∇
>           )wsid
>     IS CLEAR WS
>           )wsid hello
>     WAS CLEAR WS
>           )save
>     2021-02-22  13:05:49 (GMT-5)  hello
>           )clear
>     CLEAR WS
>           )load hello
>     SAVED 2021-02-22 13:05:49 (GMT-5)
>           hello
>     Hello World!
>
> ================================================================
>
> 2) Quirk: Sqlite3 error message comes and goes
>
> To follow is a screen log in which apl was loaded four times. Every other
> load emits an error messages as follows:
>
> 1st load: No connection error message
> 2st load: ::connect() to supposedly existing APserver failed: Invalid
> argument
>                Svar_DB not connected in Svar_DB::is_registered_id()
> 3rd load: No connection error message
> 4st load: ::connect() to supposedly existing APserver failed: Invalid
> argument
>                Svar_DB not connected in Svar_DB::is_registered_id(
>
>
> ================================================================
>
> jlh@MacBook-XNOR trunk % apl
>
>                     ______ _   __ __  __    ___     ____   __
>                    / ____// | / // / / /   /   |   / __ \ / /
>                   / / __ /  |/ // / / /   / /| |  / /_/ // /
>                  / /_/ // /|  // /_/ /   / ___ | / ____// /___
>                  \____//_/ |_/ \____/   /_/  |_|/_/    /_____/
>
>                     Welcome to GNU APL version 1.8 / 1439M
>
>                 Copyright (C) 2008-2020  Dr. Jürgen Sauermann
>                        Banner by FIGlet: www.figlet.org
>
>                 This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY;
>                           for details run: apl --gpl.
>
>      This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
>          according to the GNU Public License (GPL) version 3 or later.
>
>       )off
>
> Goodbye.
> Session duration: 5.44214 seconds
> jlh@MacBook-XNOR trunk % apl
> ::connect() to supposedly existing APserver failed: Invalid argument
>
>                     ______ _   __ __  __    ___     ____   __
>                    / ____// | / // / / /   /   |   / __ \ / /
>                   / / __ /  |/ // / / /   / /| |  / /_/ // /
>                  / /_/ // /|  // /_/ /   / ___ | / ____// /___
>                  \____//_/ |_/ \____/   /_/  |_|/_/    /_____/
>
>                     Welcome to GNU APL version 1.8 / 1439M
>
>                 Copyright (C) 2008-2020  Dr. Jürgen Sauermann
>                        Banner by FIGlet: www.figlet.org
>
>                 This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY;
>                           for details run: apl --gpl.
>
>      This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
>          according to the GNU Public License (GPL) version 3 or later.
>
> Svar_DB not connected in Svar_DB::is_registered_id()
>       )off
>
> Goodbye.
> Session duration: 7.12709 seconds
> jlh@MacBook-XNOR trunk % apl
>
>                     ______ _   __ __  __    ___     ____   __
>                    / ____// | / // / / /   /   |   / __ \ / /
>                   / / __ /  |/ // / / /   / /| |  / /_/ // /
>                  / /_/ // /|  // /_/ /   / ___ | / ____// /___
>                  \____//_/ |_/ \____/   /_/  |_|/_/    /_____/
>
>                     Welcome to GNU APL version 1.8 / 1439M
>
>                 Copyright (C) 2008-2020  Dr. Jürgen Sauermann
>                        Banner by FIGlet: www.figlet.org
>
>                 This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY;
>                           for details run: apl --gpl.
>
>      This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
>          according to the GNU Public License (GPL) version 3 or later.
>
>       )off
>
> Goodbye.
> Session duration: 9.30464 seconds
> jlh@MacBook-XNOR trunk % apl
> ::connect() to supposedly existing APserver failed: Invalid argument
>
>                     ______ _   __ __  __    ___     ____   __
>                    / ____// | / // / / /   /   |   / __ \ / /
>                   / / __ /  |/ // / / /   / /| |  / /_/ // /
>                  / /_/ // /|  // /_/ /   / ___ | / ____// /___
>                  \____//_/ |_/ \____/   /_/  |_|/_/    /_____/
>
>                     Welcome to GNU APL version 1.8 / 1439M
>
>                 Copyright (C) 2008-2020  Dr. Jürgen Sauermann
>                        Banner by FIGlet: www.figlet.org
>
>                 This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY;
>                           for details run: apl --gpl.
>
>      This program is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
>          according to the GNU Public License (GPL) version 3 or later.
>
> Svar_DB not connected in Svar_DB::is_registered_id()
>
> ================================================================
> 3) Mystery Quad-Plot usage
>
> All attempts to invoke ⎕PLOT result in a SYNTAX ERROR.
>
>       ⎕plot ''
> SYNTAX ERROR
>       ⎕PLOT
>       ^
>
>       ⎕XYZ
> VALUE ERROR
>       ⎕X YZ
>          ^
>
> I note that this behavior is expected for ⎕RE if libpcre2 is absent when
> gnu-apl is compiled...
>
> SYNTAX ERROR
>       ⎕RE
>       ^
>       'abc' ⎕RE 'aaaaabcccc'
> SYNTAX ERROR+
>       'abc' ⎕RE 'aaaaabcccc'
>
>
> Does this behavior indicate some prerequisites are missing for ⎕PLOT to
> work?
>
>
> ================================================================
> 4) Bug?: ⎕SI for non function execution errors?
>
> 4.1) It appears many (all?) errors cause push a event State Indicator.
> Other apl interpreters I've used do not push events such as value errors or
> domain errors on the State Indicator. Is this intended behavior?
>
> 4.2) The GNU APL info page indicates ⎕si's arguments include 5 and 6, but
> these return errors on my version. Is this a documentation error?
>
>
> ⍝ clear workspace
>
>       )si
>       ⎕si 1
>  ◊
>       ⎕si 2
> 0
>       ⎕si 3
>  ◊[0]
>       ⎕si 4
>  ⎕si 4
>       ⎕si 5
> DOMAIN ERROR
>       ⎕SI 5
>       ^
>
> ⍝ ?? ⎕SI 5 is supposed to be valid
>       )si
> ⋆
>
> ⍝ ?? now the state indicator is non-null
>
>       ⎕si 6
> DOMAIN ERROR
>       ⎕SI 6
>       ^
>       )si
> ⋆
> ⋆
>
> ⍝ ?? now the state indicator has to elements?
>
>       xyzzy
> VALUE ERROR
>       xyzzy
>       ^
>       )si
> ⋆
> ⋆
> ⋆
>       ⎕si 1
>  ◊ ◊ ◊ ◊
>       ⎕si 2
> 0 0 0 0
>       ⎕si 3
>  ◊[0] ◊[0] ◊[0] ◊[0]
>       ⎕si 4
>        ⎕SI 5       ⎕SI 6       xyzzy ⎕si 4
>       ⎕si 5
> DOMAIN ERROR
>       ⎕SI 5
>       ^
>       ⎕si 6
> DOMAIN ERROR
>       ⎕SI 6
>       ^
>
>
>

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