[elephant-devel] Fail to load elephant 0.60 on fedora core 4 + sbcl

[Lui Fungsin]

Hi Ian!

On 12/14/06, Ian Eslick <eslick at csail.mit.edu> wrote:
> What was your error with 0.6.0 on fedora and SBCL 0.9.16?  That
> configuration should work.

The error from SBCL is " Berkeley DB error: Invalid argument" after I
run (do-backend-tests)

The backtrace is in my original email.

> The current CVS HEAD requires BDB 4.4 to compile correctly.  HEAD is
> not guaranteed to be stable and should only be used by developers.

I just tried the CVS HEAD after I couldn't get 0.6.0 to work. My
intend was to use the stable version.

> Lispworks should work with 0.6.0, we just don't have people who test
> it regularly and none of the developers use it.  If you would like to
> test the releases for Lispworks it should be easier to maintain a
> working version.

FYI, I took a quick look at the code where lispworks fails. There are
quite a number of places where there is no conditional code for
#+lispworks.

I'm more than happy to help testing it with lispworks, but I cannot
get a working configuration that I can successfully run elephant to
begin with.

I know that you use ACL mostly. Would it be a lot of trouble for you
to install the lw personal edition and check if asdf can successfully
load elephant? You can leave the runtime testing for end users like us
to report any strange error during operations.

I know that the developer resource is tight for this project. So
asking you to do that for both the latest CVS and 0.6.0 might be
impractical. I'm more than happy if you can make the CVS HEAD (or
0.6.0, whichever is easier for you) loadable from lispworks once you
_have_ time.

I really want to put elephant to good use :-)

TIA,
-- fungsin

(FYI, memutil (0.6.0) has a bunch of errors when loaded from lispworks 5 linux:)

**++++ Error between functions:
  Package SB-KERNEL not found.
; (TOP-LEVEL-FORM 5)
; *** 17 errors detected, no fasl file produced.
Warning: COMPILE-FILE warned while performing
         #<ASDF:COMPILE-OP NIL 2150EEBF> on
         #<ASDF:CL-SOURCE-FILE "memutil" 2150B0FF>.
Warning: COMPILE-FILE failed while performing
         #<ASDF:COMPILE-OP NIL 2150EEBF> on
         #<ASDF:CL-SOURCE-FILE "memutil" 2150B0FF>.
Error: erred while invoking #<ASDF:COMPILE-OP NIL 2150EEBF> on
       #<ASDF:CL-SOURCE-FILE "memutil" 2150B0FF>
  1 (continue) Retry performing #<ASDF:COMPILE-OP NIL 2150EEBF> on
               #<ASDF:CL-SOURCE-FILE "memutil" 2150B0FF>.
  2 Continue, treating #<ASDF:COMPILE-OP NIL 2150EEBF> on
    #<ASDF:CL-SOURCE-FILE "memutil" 2150B0FF> as having been successful.
  3 (abort) Return to level 0.
  4 Return to top-level loop.
  5 Return from multiprocessing.

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