Problem loading in SBCL on Mojave

[Zach Beane]

You are using CFFI 0.9.2, which is over ten years old. Try using a more
recent CFFI, which is compatible with modern SBCL.

Zach

On Sat, Mar 23, 2019 at 6:46 PM Patrick May <patrick.may at mac.com> wrote:

> Thanks, I wasn’t aware of that.  Here’s the results of using asdf:
>
> > sbcl
> This is SBCL 1.5.0, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
> More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.
>
> SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
> It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
> BSD-style licenses.  See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
> distribution for more information.
> * (asdf:load-system :cffi)
> ; compiling file "/Users/Patrick/.sbcl/site/cffi_0.9.2/src/cffi-sbcl.lisp"
> (written 08 SEP 2006 04:56:43 PM):
> ; compiling (DEFPACKAGE #:CFFI-SYS ...)
> ; compiling (IN-PACKAGE #:CFFI-SYS)
> ; compiling (MAPC (LAMBDA # ...) ...)
> ; compiling (DEFUN CANONICALIZE-SYMBOL-NAME-CASE ...)
> ; compiling (DEFUN POINTERP ...)
> ; compiling (DEFUN POINTER-EQ ...)
> ; compiling (DEFUN NULL-POINTER ...)
> ; compiling (DEFUN NULL-POINTER-P ...)
> ; compiling (DEFUN INC-POINTER ...)
> ; compiling (DEFUN MAKE-POINTER ...)
> ; compiling (DEFUN POINTER-ADDRESS ...)
> ; compiling (DEFUN %FOREIGN-ALLOC ...)
> ; compiling (DEFUN FOREIGN-FREE ...)
> ; compiling (DEFMACRO WITH-FOREIGN-POINTER ...)
> ; compiling (DEFUN MAKE-SHAREABLE-BYTE-VECTOR ...)
> ; compiling (DEFMACRO WITH-POINTER-TO-VECTOR-DATA ...)
> ; compiling (DEFMACRO DEFINE-MEM-ACCESSORS ...)
> ; compiling (DEFINE-MEM-ACCESSORS (:CHAR SB-SYS:SIGNED-SAP-REF-8) ...)
> ; compiling (DEFUN CONVERT-FOREIGN-TYPE ...)
> ; compiling (DEFUN %FOREIGN-TYPE-SIZE ...)
> ; compiling (DEFUN %FOREIGN-TYPE-ALIGNMENT ...)
> ; compiling (DEFUN FOREIGN-FUNCALL-TYPE-AND-ARGS ...)
> ; compiling (DEFMACRO %%FOREIGN-FUNCALL ...)
> ; compiling (DEFMACRO %FOREIGN-FUNCALL ...)
> ; compiling (DEFMACRO %FOREIGN-FUNCALL-POINTER ...)
> ; compiling (DEFVAR *CALLBACKS* ...)
> ; compiling (DEFMACRO %DEFCALLBACK ...)
> ; compiling (DEFUN %CALLBACK ...)
> ; compiling (DEFUN %LOAD-FOREIGN-LIBRARY ...);
> ; caught ERROR:
> ;   READ error during COMPILE-FILE:
> ;
> ;     Lock on package SB-ALIEN violated when interning SHARED-OBJECT-FILE
> while in
> ;     package CFFI-SYS.
> ;   See also:
> ;     The SBCL Manual, Node "Package Locks"
> ;
> ;     (in form starting at line: 306, column: 0, position: 10629)
>
> ; compilation aborted after 0:00:00.139
>
> debugger invoked on a UIOP/LISP-BUILD:COMPILE-FILE-ERROR in thread
> #<THREAD "main thread" RUNNING {10005205B3}>:
>   COMPILE-FILE-ERROR while compiling #<CL-SOURCE-FILE "cffi" "src"
> "cffi-sbcl">
>
> Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:EXIT) to exit from SBCL.
>
> restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
>   0: [RETRY                        ] Retry
>                                      compiling #<CL-SOURCE-FILE "cffi"
> "src" "cffi-sbcl">.
>   1: [ACCEPT                       ] Continue, treating
>                                      compiling #<CL-SOURCE-FILE "cffi"
> "src" "cffi-sbcl">
>                                      as having been successful.
>   2:                                 Retry ASDF operation.
>   3: [CLEAR-CONFIGURATION-AND-RETRY] Retry ASDF operation after resetting
> the
>                                      configuration.
>   4:                                 Retry ASDF operation.
>   5:                                 Retry ASDF operation after resetting
> the
>                                      configuration.
>   6: [ABORT                        ] Exit debugger, returning to top level.
>
> (UIOP/LISP-BUILD:CHECK-LISP-COMPILE-RESULTS NIL T T
> "~/asdf-action::format-action/" ((#<ASDF/LISP-ACTION:COMPILE-OP > .
> #<ASDF/LISP-ACTION:CL-SOURCE-FILE "cffi" "src" "cffi-sbcl">)))
> ; File has been modified since compilation:
> ;   SYS:CONTRIB;ASDF;UIOP.LISP.NEWEST
> ; Using form offset instead of character position.
>
>    source: (ERROR 'COMPILE-FILE-ERROR :CONTEXT-FORMAT CONTEXT-FORMAT
>                   :CONTEXT-ARGUMENTS CONTEXT-ARGUMENTS)
> 0] 6
> ;
> ; compilation unit aborted
> ;   caught 2 fatal ERROR conditions
> ;   caught 1 ERROR condition
> * (quit)
>
>
>
> On Mar 23, 2019, at 5:15 PM, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info> wrote:
>
> One thing to try first off -- quickload by default suppresses errors
> (catches them) and keeps you from getting at them. So you should do the (asdf:load-system
> :cffi) again, but this time get a backtrace. That will give people more
> information so that they can help.
> Cheers,
> R
>
> On 23 Mar 2019, at 15:56, Patrick May wrote:
>
> I’m running Mojave 10.14.2 and SBCL 1.5.0. When I try to load CFFI, I get
> this error:
>
> * (ql:quickload :cffi)
> To load "cffi":
> Load 1 ASDF system:
> cffi
> ; Loading "cffi"
> [package cffi-utils]..............................
> [package cffi-features]...........................
> [package cffi-sys]....;
> ; caught ERROR:
> ; READ error during COMPILE-FILE:
> ;
> ; Lock on package SB-ALIEN violated when interning SHARED-OBJECT-FILE
> while in
> ; package CFFI-SYS.
> ; See also:
> ; The SBCL Manual, Node "Package Locks"
> ;
> ; (in form starting at line: 306, column: 0, position: 10629)
>
> Then I’m dumped into the debugger. The same thing occurs using
> (asdf:load-system :cffi). I’ve cleared ~/.cache/common-lisp, but no joy.
> Any thoughts appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Patrick
>
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