[elephant-devel] Some problems installing Elephant

[Edi Weitz]

Hi!

I tried installing Elephant (0.2.1) on a Debian testing system with
Berkeley DB 4.2 last night and came across a couple of issues which
I'm reporting below.  I don't know which of these are known so I'll
just list them all.

I. Allegro 7.0

1. I installed the 'libpth14' package from Debian for the threading
   library but got these results when compiling/loading Elephant:

     Error: Loading /usr/lib/libpthread.so failed with error:
            /usr/lib/libpthread.so: invalid ELF header.

   There's another package available called 'libpth2' but I get the
   same error with that one.  I then proceeded without libpthread.so,
   i.e. I just removed the form which tried to load this library and
   all else seems to work (more or less).  Is this library really
   needed?  And what for?

2. I saw a couple of warnings during compilation:

     ;;; Compiling file
     ;;;   /usr/local/lisp/source/elephant-0.2.1/src/collections.lisp
     ; While compiling (METHOD (SETF GET-VALUE) (T T BTREE-INDEX)):
     Warning: variable BT is used yet it was declared ignored
     ; While compiling (METHOD CURSOR-GET-BOTH (SECONDARY-CURSOR T T)):
     Warning: variable CURSOR is used yet it was declared ignored
     ; While compiling (METHOD CURSOR-GET-BOTH-RANGE (SECONDARY-CURSOR T T)):
     Warning: variable CURSOR is used yet it was declared ignored
     ; While compiling (METHOD CURSOR-PUT (SECONDARY-CURSOR T)):
     Warning: variable CURSOR is used yet it was declared ignored

     Warning: While compiling these undefined functions were referenced:
              #:G2387 from position 44023 in
                /usr/local/lisp/source/elephant-0.2.1/src/berkeley-db.lisp
              #:G2357 from position 43753 in
                /usr/local/lisp/source/elephant-0.2.1/src/berkeley-db.lisp
              #:G2296 from position 43146 in
                /usr/local/lisp/source/elephant-0.2.1/src/berkeley-db.lisp
              #:G2118 from position 40902 in
                /usr/local/lisp/source/elephant-0.2.1/src/berkeley-db.lisp
              #:G1949 from position 27052 in
                /usr/local/lisp/source/elephant-0.2.1/src/berkeley-db.lisp
              #:G1921 from position 20890 in
                /usr/local/lisp/source/elephant-0.2.1/src/berkeley-db.lisp
              #:G1646 from position 10155 in
                /usr/local/lisp/source/elephant-0.2.1/src/berkeley-db.lisp
              #:G1631 from position 8250 in
                /usr/local/lisp/source/elephant-0.2.1/src/berkeley-db.lisp
              #:G1619 from position 7935 in
                /usr/local/lisp/source/elephant-0.2.1/src/berkeley-db.lisp
              #:G1553 from position 7283 in
                /usr/local/lisp/source/elephant-0.2.1/src/berkeley-db.lisp
              #:G1266 from position 5184 in
                /usr/local/lisp/source/elephant-0.2.1/src/berkeley-db.lisp
              #:G1236 from position 4939 in
                /usr/local/lisp/source/elephant-0.2.1/src/berkeley-db.lisp
              #:G906 from position 2337 in
                /usr/local/lisp/source/elephant-0.2.1/src/berkeley-db.lisp

3. Running all tests with (EL-TEST::DO-ALL-TESTS) gave this:

     3 out of 85 total tests failed: ELEPHANT-TESTS::ARRAYS-1, 
        ELEPHANT-TESTS::NO-EVAL-INITFORM, ELEPHANT-TESTS::UPDATE-CLASS.

   From the docs I expected only one test to fail.  What about the
   other two?

II.  Then I tried CMUCL 19a (from Debian) and had problems similar to
     1. and 3. above, namely:

1. The Debian libthread.so doesn't work with CMUCL either:

     Error in function SYSTEM::LOAD-OBJECT-FILE:
        Can't open object "/usr/lib/libpthread.so": NIL
        [Condition of type SIMPLE-ERROR]

2. More than one test fails:

     2 out of 85 total tests failed: ELEPHANT-TESTS::NO-EVAL-INITFORM, 
        ELEPHANT-TESTS::UPDATE-CLASS.

Finally, I installed Berkeley DB 4.3 and gave the Elephant CVS version
a try.  I haven't captured all the details but it wasn't flawless
either.  I seem to remember the same problems with libpthread.so and
there were also test failures.  In addition, CMUCL complained about
locked packages.

Cheers,
Edi.