<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>Thanks, I wasn’t aware of that. Here’s the results of using asdf:<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">> sbcl<br class="">This is SBCL 1.5.0, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.<br class="">More information about SBCL is available at <<a href="http://www.sbcl.org/" class="">http://www.sbcl.org/</a>>.<br class=""><br class="">SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.<br class="">It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under<br class="">BSD-style licenses. See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the<br class="">distribution for more information.<br class="">* (asdf:load-system :cffi)<br class="">; compiling file "/Users/Patrick/.sbcl/site/cffi_0.9.2/src/cffi-sbcl.lisp" (written 08 SEP 2006 04:56:43 PM):<br class="">; compiling (DEFPACKAGE #:CFFI-SYS ...)<br class="">; compiling (IN-PACKAGE #:CFFI-SYS)<br class="">; compiling (MAPC (LAMBDA # ...) ...)<br class="">; compiling (DEFUN CANONICALIZE-SYMBOL-NAME-CASE ...)<br class="">; compiling (DEFUN POINTERP ...)<br class="">; compiling (DEFUN POINTER-EQ ...)<br class="">; compiling (DEFUN NULL-POINTER ...)<br class="">; compiling (DEFUN NULL-POINTER-P ...)<br class="">; compiling (DEFUN INC-POINTER ...)<br class="">; compiling (DEFUN MAKE-POINTER ...)<br class="">; compiling (DEFUN POINTER-ADDRESS ...)<br class="">; compiling (DEFUN %FOREIGN-ALLOC ...)<br class="">; compiling (DEFUN FOREIGN-FREE ...)<br class="">; compiling (DEFMACRO WITH-FOREIGN-POINTER ...)<br class="">; compiling (DEFUN MAKE-SHAREABLE-BYTE-VECTOR ...)<br class="">; compiling (DEFMACRO WITH-POINTER-TO-VECTOR-DATA ...)<br class="">; compiling (DEFMACRO DEFINE-MEM-ACCESSORS ...)<br class="">; compiling (DEFINE-MEM-ACCESSORS (:CHAR SB-SYS:SIGNED-SAP-REF-8) ...)<br class="">; compiling (DEFUN CONVERT-FOREIGN-TYPE ...)<br class="">; compiling (DEFUN %FOREIGN-TYPE-SIZE ...)<br class="">; compiling (DEFUN %FOREIGN-TYPE-ALIGNMENT ...)<br class="">; compiling (DEFUN FOREIGN-FUNCALL-TYPE-AND-ARGS ...)<br class="">; compiling (DEFMACRO %%FOREIGN-FUNCALL ...)<br class="">; compiling (DEFMACRO %FOREIGN-FUNCALL ...)<br class="">; compiling (DEFMACRO %FOREIGN-FUNCALL-POINTER ...)<br class="">; compiling (DEFVAR *CALLBACKS* ...)<br class="">; compiling (DEFMACRO %DEFCALLBACK ...)<br class="">; compiling (DEFUN %CALLBACK ...)<br class="">; compiling (DEFUN %LOAD-FOREIGN-LIBRARY ...); <br class="">; caught ERROR:<br class="">; READ error during COMPILE-FILE:<br class="">; <br class="">; Lock on package SB-ALIEN violated when interning SHARED-OBJECT-FILE while in<br class="">; package CFFI-SYS.<br class="">; See also:<br class="">; The SBCL Manual, Node "Package Locks"<br class="">; <br class="">; (in form starting at line: 306, column: 0, position: 10629)<br class=""><br class="">; compilation aborted after 0:00:00.139<br class=""><br class="">debugger invoked on a UIOP/LISP-BUILD:COMPILE-FILE-ERROR in thread<br class="">#<THREAD "main thread" RUNNING {10005205B3}>:<br class=""> COMPILE-FILE-ERROR while compiling #<CL-SOURCE-FILE "cffi" "src" "cffi-sbcl"><br class=""><br class="">Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:EXIT) to exit from SBCL.<br class=""><br class="">restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):<br class=""> 0: [RETRY ] Retry<br class=""> compiling #<CL-SOURCE-FILE "cffi" "src" "cffi-sbcl">.<br class=""> 1: [ACCEPT ] Continue, treating<br class=""> compiling #<CL-SOURCE-FILE "cffi" "src" "cffi-sbcl"><br class=""> as having been successful.<br class=""> 2: Retry ASDF operation.<br class=""> 3: [CLEAR-CONFIGURATION-AND-RETRY] Retry ASDF operation after resetting the<br class=""> configuration.<br class=""> 4: Retry ASDF operation.<br class=""> 5: Retry ASDF operation after resetting the<br class=""> configuration.<br class=""> 6: [ABORT ] Exit debugger, returning to top level.<br class=""><br class="">(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">)))<br class="">; File has been modified since compilation:<br class="">; SYS:CONTRIB;ASDF;UIOP.LISP.NEWEST<br class="">; Using form offset instead of character position.<br class=""><br class=""> source: (ERROR 'COMPILE-FILE-ERROR :CONTEXT-FORMAT CONTEXT-FORMAT<br class=""> :CONTEXT-ARGUMENTS CONTEXT-ARGUMENTS)<br class="">0] 6<br class="">; <br class="">; compilation unit aborted<br class="">; caught 2 fatal ERROR conditions<br class="">; caught 1 ERROR condition<br class="">* (quit)<br class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 23, 2019, at 5:15 PM, Robert Goldman <<a href="mailto:rpgoldman@sift.info" class="">rpgoldman@sift.info</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">
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<div style="font-family:sans-serif" class=""><div style="white-space:normal" class=""><p dir="auto" class="">One thing to try first off -- <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7" class="">quickload</code> by default suppresses errors (catches them) and keeps you from getting at them. So you should do the <code style="background-color:#F7F7F7; border-radius:3px; margin:0; padding:0 0.4em" bgcolor="#F7F7F7" class="">(asdf:load-system :cffi)</code> again, but this time get a backtrace. That will give people more information so that they can help.<br class="">
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R</p><p dir="auto" class="">On 23 Mar 2019, at 15:56, Patrick May wrote:</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal" class=""><blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px" class=""><p dir="auto" class=""> I’m running Mojave 10.14.2 and SBCL 1.5.0. When I try to load CFFI, I get this error:<br class="">
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* (ql:quickload :cffi)<br class="">
To load "cffi":<br class="">
Load 1 ASDF system:<br class="">
cffi<br class="">
; Loading "cffi"<br class="">
[package cffi-utils]..............................<br class="">
[package cffi-features]...........................<br class="">
[package cffi-sys]....;<br class="">
; caught ERROR:<br class="">
; READ error during COMPILE-FILE:<br class="">
;<br class="">
; Lock on package SB-ALIEN violated when interning SHARED-OBJECT-FILE while in<br class="">
; package CFFI-SYS.<br class="">
; See also:<br class="">
; The SBCL Manual, Node "Package Locks"<br class="">
;<br class="">
; (in form starting at line: 306, column: 0, position: 10629)<br class="">
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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.<br class="">
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Thanks,<br class="">
<br class="">
Patrick</p>
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<div style="white-space:normal" class=""><p dir="auto" class="">Robert P. Goldman<br class="">
Research Fellow<br class="">
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Minneapolis, MN 55401</p><p dir="auto" class="">Voice: (612) 326-3934<br class="">
Email: <a href="mailto:rpgoldman@SIFT.net" style="color:#3983C4" class="">rpgoldman@SIFT.net</a></p>
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