[cffi-devel] pathnames and libraries

[Martin Simmons]

>>>>> On Tue, 14 Feb 2012 10:20:30 -1000, JTK  said:
> 
> When trying to install GSLL (the gnu scientific library lisp package) using quicklisp,
> I noticed that it failed because the library name was a pathname rather than a string.
> 
> I fixed it by changing cffi's src/libraries.lisp as described below, putting pathnames into
> the etypecase.
> 
> Is there some reason why this isn't done normally?

Version 0.10.6 already has a case for pathname in load-foreign-library-helper.

Which version of cffi are you using?  Perhaps you need to update quicklisp?

__Martin