[armedbear-devel] Setup changes for cl-test-grid.cloud.efficito.com

[Zach Beane]

Anton Vodonosov <avodonosov at yandex.ru> writes:

> 30.03.2013, 13:14, "Erik Huelsmann" <ehuels at gmail.com>:
>> Hi Anton,
>>
>> Looking at some of the test grid failures for ABCL, I noticed some of the OpenGL packages failing due to being unable to locate LibGL.so. To resolve that, I ran:
>>
>>  $ aptitude install libgl1-mesa-swx11
>>
>> Then I noticed something wanted to require JSS, but didn't know how to, so I've added "(require :abcl-contrib)" to /home/testgrid/.abclrc.
>>
>> With these in place cl-glfw-opengl-core seems to load just fine.
>
> OK.
>
>> Any other libraries or measures I should take in order to be able to load (currently failing) systems?
>
> Nothing else.
>
> I don't usually expect the foreign libraries to be installed. There are many of them, and I don't have exact list.
> I want to adjust the test run/reporting code to be able to recognize FFI related failures automatically,
> to exclude them from comparisons and probably collect exact list of foreign libraries used by Quicklisp libs,
> but this is a TODO task.

The latest CFFI signals a more detailed condition regarding absent
foreign libraries. I hope it makes it easier to gather this exact
list. (I also hope it eventually makes it easy to automatically or
semi-automatically download missing foreign libraries.)

Zach