Re: [elephant-devel] BDB problems and a proper FAQ

2009-11-13 Thread Leslie P. Polzer
Ian Eslick wrote: > We track the latest version of BDB. The current 1.0 pre-release > depends on BDB 4.7. Okay, but the latest is 4.8 since about two weeks so we might want to mention that. > a. get bdb 4.7 > > Direct link; if it doesn't work use the index page: > http://download.oracle.com/b

Re: [elephant-devel] BDB stores don't work on my 32-bit Debian box either

2009-11-13 Thread Leslie P. Polzer
Sebastian Tennant wrote: > I thought CFFI emulated (or improved upon) UFFI somehow, not the other way > around. [To be honest, I don't know the first thing about all this]. CFFI is younger than UFFI and works in a different way. They provide an incomplete UFFI compatibility layer, though. >

Re: [elephant-devel] BDB stores don't work on my 32-bit Debian box either

2009-11-13 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Robert Synnott : > 2009/11/13 Sebastian Tennant : >> Two isn't many :) > There are certainly more than two. I've used it in a reasonably large > production webapp, and I know of a few other people who've used it. I was joking (hence the smiley) and trying to express a little of my exasperat

[elephant-devel] BDB problems and a proper FAQ

2009-11-13 Thread Ian Eslick
Hi All, To address recent discussions. I'm ostensibly the primary developer on Elephant; the three prior primary developers have been inactive for years now. Leslie has recently been kind enough to step up and help with user support and bug fixes and will certainly be recognized in the 1.

Re: [elephant-devel] BDB stores don't work on my 32-bit Debian box either

2009-11-13 Thread Robert Synnott
2009/11/13 Sebastian Tennant : >>> I'm starting to wonder if many people really use elephant, > >> Ian and me are using it every day in GNU/Linux environments.. > > Two isn't many :) > There are certainly more than two. I've used it in a reasonably large production webapp, and I know of a few oth

Re: [elephant-devel] BDB stores don't work on my 32-bit Debian box either

2009-11-13 Thread Henrik Hjelte
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Sebastian Tennant wrote: > >  end of file on #  /home/sebyte/lisp/cl/clbuild/source/elephant/src/db-bdb/berkeley-constants" > {BB13669}> >    [Condition of type END-OF-FILE]                       ^^ > > If I repeat it a thrid time I get the same er

Re: [elephant-devel] BDB stores don't work on my 32-bit Debian box either

2009-11-13 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth "Leslie P. Polzer" : > I don't know much about this. My guess is that this page only lists > authors that have committed a chunk big enough to be relevant in > copyright matters. Yes, I'm sure you're right. > I've contributed a substantial number of fixes and help people when > they face pr

Re: [elephant-devel] "file is not of required architecture"

2009-11-13 Thread Leslie P. Polzer
Sebastian Tennant wrote: > Quoth Sebastian Tennant : >> Now let's see if I can get elephant's bdb store working on my Mac. > > Well, I'm a lot closer, but still not quite there yet. > > I compiled a 64-bit BerkeleyDB but now I get a 'Berkeley DB error #22: Invalid > argument' error message when I

Re: [elephant-devel] "file is not of required architecture"

2009-11-13 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Sebastian Tennant : > Now let's see if I can get elephant's bdb store working on my Mac. Well, I'm a lot closer, but still not quite there yet. I compiled a 64-bit BerkeleyDB but now I get a 'Berkeley DB error #22: Invalid argument' error message when I try to (open-store ...): bash-3.2$

Re: [elephant-devel] BDB stores don't work on my 32-bit Debian box either

2009-11-13 Thread Leslie P. Polzer
Sebastian Tennant wrote: > Quoth "Leslie P. Polzer" : >>> Would an elephant developer please help. (I'm assuming you're not a >>> developer >>> Leslie). I really want to start actually using elephant!!!. > >> I guess you could say there are two somewhat active Elephant developers right >> now, a

Re: [elephant-devel] BDB stores don't work on my 32-bit Debian box either

2009-11-13 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth "Leslie P. Polzer" : >> Would an elephant developer please help. (I'm assuming you're not a >> developer >> Leslie). I really want to start actually using elephant!!!. > I guess you could say there are two somewhat active Elephant developers right > now, and I'm one of them. I'm sorry Les