Re: [elephant-devel] elephant installation on sbcl 1.0.26.1

2009-03-17 Thread Richard KLINDA
Thank you mosi for the detailed description, very useful! Have a nice week everybody. :) -- Richard ___ elephant-devel site list elephant-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/mailman/listinfo/elephant-devel

Re: [elephant-devel] elephant installation on sbcl 1.0.26.1

2009-03-16 Thread Andrea Russo
Hi, First of all, thanks for your detailed report, mosi. mosi writes: > 6. removed the clbuild uffi package, because thre was some conflict > with cffi package > 7. reinstalled uffi and cffi by hand *asdf-install:install That was my problem! I didn't know about the clbuild cffi problem reporte

Re: [elephant-devel] elephant installation on sbcl 1.0.26.1

2009-03-16 Thread Leslie P. Polzer
> How does one go about updating the cl-build dependency list? I'm not sure the maintainers want that, see this link for the discussion: http://www.mail-archive.com/clbuild-de...@common-lisp.net/msg00145.html Maybe you can convince them. Leslie -- LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.co

Re: [elephant-devel] elephant installation on sbcl 1.0.26.1

2009-03-16 Thread Ian Eslick
How does one go about updating the cl-build dependency list? Ian On Mar 16, 2009, at 9:21 AM, Leslie P. Polzer wrote: > >> cl-build doesn't support the current UFFI head? That's what I use. > > I think it does, but a fresh clbuild install of Elephant will > use the UFFI compatiblity layer of CF

Re: [elephant-devel] elephant installation on sbcl 1.0.26.1

2009-03-16 Thread Leslie P. Polzer
> cl-build doesn't support the current UFFI head? That's what I use. I think it does, but a fresh clbuild install of Elephant will use the UFFI compatiblity layer of CFFI instead of the real UFFI system. Leslie -- LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/polzer Xing Profile: https://www.

Re: [elephant-devel] elephant installation on sbcl 1.0.26.1

2009-03-16 Thread Ian Eslick
cl-build doesn't support the current UFFI head? That's what I use. Ian On Mar 16, 2009, at 7:45 AM, Leslie P. Polzer wrote: > >> Wow, that is really a quite awful procedure. >> >> I've never used cl-build so will do a test run in a clean environment >> on that and let you know if I'm able to fi

Re: [elephant-devel] elephant installation on sbcl 1.0.26.1

2009-03-16 Thread Leslie P. Polzer
> Wow, that is really a quite awful procedure. > > I've never used cl-build so will do a test run in a clean environment > on that and let you know if I'm able to fix some of these problems. One of the main problems here is that Elephant does not work with the CFFI UFFI emulation, and the clbuild

Re: [elephant-devel] elephant installation on sbcl 1.0.26.1

2009-03-16 Thread Ian Eslick
Wow, that is really a quite awful procedure. I've never used cl-build so will do a test run in a clean environment on that and let you know if I'm able to fix some of these problems. Ian On Mar 16, 2009, at 6:18 AM, mosi wrote: > Hi Andrea, > I`m not at my linux machine, but as far as I can r

Re: [elephant-devel] elephant installation on sbcl 1.0.26.1

2009-03-16 Thread mosi
Hi Andrea, I`m not at my linux machine, but as far as I can rememeber these were the steps: 0. installed berkeleyDB.4.7.xy = the newest from 03/2009 1. installed clbuild 2. installed a fresh sbcl with clbuild (clbuild update sbcl or some similar command, see clbuild help) 3. cleaned/deleted all ins

Re: [elephant-devel] elephant installation on sbcl 1.0.26.1

2009-03-15 Thread Andrea Russo
Andrea Russo writes: > Hi, > > mosi writes: > >> it works! > > Can you please describe how you get rid of the "Invalid argument" error? Sorry, I really meant: the "invalid number of arguments" error. Bye, Andrea. -- Reclama i tuoi diritti digitali, elimina il DRM. Approfondisci su http://ww

Re: [elephant-devel] elephant installation on sbcl 1.0.26.1

2009-03-15 Thread Andrea Russo
Hi, mosi writes: > it works! Can you please describe how you get rid of the "Invalid argument" error? I'm having exactly the same problem with sbcl 1.0.26.1 and BDB 4.7. TIA, Andrea. -- Reclama i tuoi diritti digitali, elimina il DRM. Approfondisci su http://www.no1984.org Reclaim your digi

Re: [elephant-devel] elephant installation on sbcl 1.0.26.1

2009-03-12 Thread Ian Eslick
Great news! I'm glad it works for you. The tests are not guaranteed to be idempotent, although we work hard to make them so. Try deleting the test db (the easy way is to use / tests/delscript.sh) and re-running; should work great from within slime now. I'll add a ticket for the SLIME subpr

Re: [elephant-devel] elephant installation on sbcl 1.0.26.1

2009-03-12 Thread mosi
Hi Ian, it works! This is a music to my ears: --- (do-backend-tests) ... Single store mode: ignoring. Did 500 checks. Pass: 497 (99%) Skip: 0 ( 0%) Fail: 3 ( 0%) Failure Details: INDEXING-CHANGE-CLASS []: 1 evaluated to 1, which is not = to 2

Re: [elephant-devel] elephant installation on sbcl 1.0.26.1

2009-03-12 Thread Ian Eslick
A couple of quick points: - The latest elephant requires BDB 4.7 - The C compilation step can cause problems when run from within slime, doing an initial compile from the console typically fixes this. - Sometimes SBCL complains the compile failed due to package export or other issues bu

[elephant-devel] elephant installation on sbcl 1.0.26.1

2009-03-12 Thread mosi
Hi, i tried the following: This is SBCL 1.0.26.1 (threading on, unicode on) on debian linux, compiled from clbuild, run on SLIME 2008-12-23. I followed the installation instructions from http://common-lisp.net/project/elephant/doc/ pulled the latest build: darcs get http://www.common-lisp.net/proj