[elephant-devel] trouble getting going (with open-store, ...)

[Ian Eslick]

There are some patches pending for CVS which should remove the makefile
step. 

I'm open to suggestions on the right way to provide parameters to the
build process for the C libraries and the load process for Lisp (where
are the foreign BDB libs and local libs).  We've tried to make
reasonable defaults for the various platforms, but if your BDB or SQL
libraries are not in the usual place then customization is needed.

There may be a few problems with CVS (although I use it daily) that
haven't been tracked down yet so if you run into non-configuration
related problems, please revert to using 0.6.0 and BDB 4.3.

Thanks for the help!  The next two weeks are busy for me, and then I
hope to get back to hacking properly on Elephant.

Ian

Kilian Sprotte wrote:
> Am 05.10.2006 um 15:01 schrieb Ian Eslick:
>
>> Can you list the various problems you had trying to get the system to
>> run?  We're working on useability for the next release and want to fix
>> as many of the inconveniences as possible.
>
> I can help with testing on OSX sbcl and openmcl. At first, I would
> like to concentrate on the bdb backend. I haven't actually been using
> elephant for a while, so I will start with a fresh installation and
> tell you what happens.
>
> I will take the cvs version and db44 is that correct?
> (sbcl and openmcl 32bit on osx 10.4 db44 installed via fink)
>
> I will also tell you exactly what I need to comment/uncomment in the
> makefile or somewhere else - it would be wonderful, if this wasn't
> necessary at all, just taking the tarball and it works, even on a mac
> - if this cannot be reduced to zero, maybe it would be a good idea to
> put up some comments on the website categorized by the various platforms.
>
> Isn't there an attempt underway to get rid of the makefile entirely?
> (sorry, haven't really been following recent developments, as I
> should...)
>
> Greetings,
>
>   Kilian
>
>
>  
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