[cffi-devel] Greetings ..

[Greg Bennett]

Luís Oliveira wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Greg Bennett <gwbennett at sentex.ca> wrote:
>
>   
>> ;;; I rescued cl-cffi  via
>> ;;;   sudo apt-get install cl-cffi
>> ;;; which did its job correctly, as far as I can see, but I am no judge
>> ;;; of all that is involved in installation on linux.
>>     
>
> In my experience, using Debian/Ubuntu Lisp packages is often more
> trouble than it's worth. I haven't used those in a while, but from the
> output that you sent it doesn't seem like it's a CFFI issue. I'd start
> by trying SBCL instead of CMUCL, and if that doesn't work I would go
> for clbuild[1].
>
> HTH.
>
>
> [1] http://common-lisp.net/project/clbuild/
>
>   
Luis, thanks for you information. I shall certainly look into clbuild. 
You were quite correct in diagnosing that
my difficulty was not a CFFI issue. At the suggestion of Dmitry Kalyanov 
I re-did my efforts running CMUCL
as root -> all was well. Thus linux permissions were an issue somewhere 
in the processes, I assume.

Cheers /Greg Bennett