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

2009-11-21 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Ian Eslick : >> I still intend to provide some patches for doc/Makefile and doc/ >> elephant.texinfo. > I'm happy to make the updates if you provide doc patches (for the 1.0 > release) and I'll post the FAQ once we've resolved the current problems. I hope to be able to edit elephant.texin

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

2009-11-21 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth "Leslie P. Polzer" : > Sebastian Tennant wrote: >> If he isn't able to do it, then who is? > Well, with "able" I mostly meant "has the time, motivation and energy". >> Does such a person exist? > I think there are a few candidates that could fix either Elephant or > CFFI-UFFI (given enough

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

2009-11-15 Thread Leslie P. Polzer
Sebastian Tennant wrote: >> [Luís is] one of the primary [CFFI] developers I think. But that doesn't mean >> that he's able [...] to do this work. > > If he isn't able to do it, then who is? Well, with "able" I mostly meant "has the time, motivation and energy". >> Why wouldn't one person be e

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

2009-11-14 Thread Ian Eslick
>> No I think this particular compilation has already been completed >> at this point. >> [...] >> Not sure about that. We need a backtrace, and please show us your >> bdb-constants.lisp. > > I have a third machine (an x86 32-bit Debian VPS) and I've finally got > elephant-1.0 to work with a patc

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

2009-11-14 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Henrik Hjelte : > You could perhaps try to remove all fasl and generated files I've been doing that all along. > and recompile with an older sbcl version. Sbcl can have bugs sometimes. This is what I'm going to do. Thanks for the suggestion. I despaired at the thought initially but then

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

2009-11-14 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth "Leslie P. Polzer" : > CFFI is younger than UFFI and works in a different way. They provide an > incomplete UFFI compatibility layer, though. Thanks for the clarification. > [Luís is] one of the primary [CFFI] developers I think. But that doesn't mean > that he's able [...] to do this work.

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

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] 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

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

2009-11-12 Thread Leslie P. Polzer
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 05:31:35PM +, Sebastian Tennant wrote: > For the last time: > > Debian Lenny, i386 32-bit > SBCL 1.0.32.14 > elephant-1.0 from darcs > BDB 4.7 > All other dependencies up-to-date as far as clbuild is concerned. > > Would an elephant developer please help. (I'm as

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

2009-11-12 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Quoth Sebastian Tennant : > Store controller init function not registered for data store BDB. > [Condition of type SIMPLE-ERROR] Scratch the above error - I can no longer reproduce it myself since deciding to delete all relevant fasl files, and starting from scratch. CL-USER> (defconstant +st

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

2009-11-12 Thread Sebastian Tennant
Hi list, I'm disappointed to have to say that elephant's BDB store doesn't work out-of-the-box on my 32-bit x86 Debian box either: Attempting to load libmemutil.so... Loaded /home/sebyte/lisp/cl/clbuild/source/elephant/src/memutil/libmemutil.so Loading /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.7/lib/libdb-4.7.s