[elephant-devel] Installing on MacOS X, SBCL

[Ian Eslick]

I provided a patch to the .so vs. .dylib problem under SBCL.  Is that in
the current 0.5.0 release or is it on the trunk after the current
0.5.0?  Regardless, the patch for this is on the main web page.

Much of the lisp code in elephant on Mac OS X is looking for .dylib and
the stack trace below seems to indicate that a library is not being
loaded or that there's a general problem with foreign function calling.

Another thought, is the SBCL version current enough?  I haven't got my
SBCL environment up and running on Mac OS X yet to test this.

Ian

Robert L. Read wrote:
> One gentleman who uses a Mac has to modify the makefile so it
> produced a .so instead of a .dylib.  You might try that; I don't have
> a Mac and don't fully understand the difference.
>
> On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 09:04 -0600, Robert L. Read wrote:
>> Does elephant-0.5 match the value of *elephant-lib-path*?
>> I recently changed it to just use "elephant", since we have made so
>> many releases in the
>> last few months and plan to make more soon.
>>
>>
>> (defvar *elephant-lib-path* "/usr/local/share/common-lisp/elephant/")
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 15:54 +0100, Tayssir John Gabbour wrote:
>>> Yes, make created in (the ASDF-accessible) elephant-0.5/:
>>> libsleepycat.dylib
>>> libmemutil.dylib
>>>
>>> Previously, libdb.dylib was only in /usr/local/BerkeleyDB.4.3/lib/, but
>>> I just made a soft and a hard link to:
>>> /usr/lib/libdb.dylib
>>>
>>> which didn't fix the problem. :(
>>>
>>>
>>> Tayssir
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Robert L. Read wrote:
>>> > This is just a guess:
>>> >
>>> > Did you run "make" and do the following two files exists in this location:
>>> >
>>> > /usr/local/share/common-lisp/elephant/libsleepycat.so
>>> > /usr/local/share/common-lisp/elephant/libmemutil.so
>>> >
>>> > and does
>>> > /usr/lib/libdb.so
>>> >
>>> > exists in a standard lib location, such as /usr/lib/libdb.so?
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 12:10 +0100, Tayssir John Gabbour wrote:
>>> >
>>> >>Hi all,
>>> >>
>>> >>(I'm using SBCL 0.9.4 on MacOS X)
>>> >>
>>> >>I installed Elephant-0.5.0, BerkeleyDB.4.3, uffi-1.5.7.. and I'm at a
>>> >>loss about how to deal with the following Slime stack trace. (Elephant
>>> >>apparently knows about the "dylib" naming convention and all that...)
>>> >>
>>> >>----
>>> >>Attempt to call an undefined alien function.
>>> >>   [Condition of type SB-KERNEL::UNDEFINED-ALIEN-FUNCTION-ERROR]
>>> >>
>>> >>Restarts:
>>> >>  0: [ABORT] Abort handling SLIME request.
>>> >>  1: [ABORT] Exit debugger, returning to top level.
>>> >>
>>> >>Backtrace:
>>> >>  0: (SB-KERNEL::UNDEFINED-ALIEN-FUNCTION-ERROR)
>>> >>  1: ("foreign function: call_into_lisp")
>>> >>  2: (SLEEPYCAT::%DB-ENV-CREATE 0)
>>> >>  3: (SLEEPYCAT:DB-ENV-CREATE)
>>> >>  4: ((SB-PCL::FAST-METHOD OPEN-CONTROLLER (BDB-STORE-CONTROLLER))
>>> >>(#(NIL 1) . #()) #<unavailable argument> #<BDB-STORE-CONTROLLER
>>> >>{11DAC349}> (:RECOVER NIL :RECOVER-FATAL NIL :THREAD T))
>>> >>  5: (ELEPHANT::GET-CONTROLLER "/Users/main/Desktop/testdb")
>>> >>  6: (OPEN-STORE "/Users/main/Desktop/testdb" :RECOVER NIL
>>> >>:RECOVER-FATAL NIL :THREAD T)
>>> >>  7: (SB-INT:EVAL-IN-LEXENV (OPEN-STORE "/Users/main/Desktop/testdb")
>>> >>#<NULL-LEXENV>)
>>> >>----
>>> >>
>>> >>Thanks for any advice,
>>> >>Tayssir
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