[elephant-devel] Elephant 0.6.0 on OpenMCL 1.x

[George Khouri]

Ian,

>This sounds like a slot type declaration problem.  I've had these before
>in OpenMCL.  What is the type of a base string in OpenMCL?  i.e.
>(type-of "/tmp/gk/")

(type-of "/tmp/gk/") ==> (SIMPLE-ARRAY CHARACTER (8))
>
>You might comment out the type declaration for that slot in
>src/db-bdb/bdb-controller.lisp and try again.  Let me know how it goes.

That did it (actually the spec slot is defined in the parent class in
src/elephant/controller.lisp)

I've run the tests in OpenMCL 1.0 and 1.1-pre-060720 and they pass.

Elephant 0.6.0/Berkeley4.3 doesn't work with latest pre-release, OpenMCL 1.1-pre-061024. I'll report on that when I get a minute - i suspect it has to do with handling unicode.

Thanks,
George

>George Khouri wrote:
>> Friends,
>> I'm new to this list and I couldn't find a thread on this subject. I've been 
>using Elephant 0.2.1/Berkeley 4.2 on several versions of OpenMCL up to 
>1.1-pre-060720 successfully for some time now. Elephant 0.2.1/Berkeley 4.2  no 
>longer work with the latest pre-release of OpenMCL 1.1 (061024).  I've updated 
>to Elephant 0.6.0/Berkeley 4.3 from the tarballs but can't get Elephant to work 
>with any openMCL 1.x versions (perhaps it doesn't). Berkeley 4.3 and Elephant 
>0.6.0 compile fine but the tests don't run because open-store complains that any 
>:bdb spec it is passed is an invalid type.
>>
>> Sample session:
>> *********
>> Welcome to OpenMCL Version 1.0 (DarwinPPC32)!
>> ? (asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :elephant)
>> ; loading system definition from /src/lisp/lisp-systems/elephant.asd into 
>#<Package "ASDF269">
>> ; loading system definition from /src/lisp/lisp-systems/uffi.asd into 
>#<Package "ASDF270">
>> ; registering #<SYSTEM UFFI #x83CB866> as UFFI
>> ; registering #<SYSTEM ELEPHANT #x8445B06> as ELEPHANT
>> ; loading system definition from /src/lisp/lisp-systems/cl-base64.asd into 
>#<Package "ASDF277">
>> ; registering #<SYSTEM CL-BASE64 #x8456686> as CL-BASE64
>> ; registering #<SYSTEM CL-BASE64-TESTS #x846E776> as CL-BASE64-TESTS
>> NIL
>> ? (ele:open-store '(:bdb "/tmp/gk/"))
>> ; loading system definition from /src/lisp/lisp-systems/ele-bdb.asd into 
>#<Package "ASDF280">
>> ; registering #<SYSTEM ELE-BDB #x8496BEE> as ELE-BDB
>>   
>>> Error in process listener(1): The value (:BDB "/tmp/gk/"), derived from the 
>initarg :SPEC, can not be used to set the value of the slot ELEPHANT::SPEC in 
>#<SLEEPYCAT::BDB-STORE-CONTROLLER #x851C636>, because it is not of type (OR 
>PATHNAME (VECTOR CHARACTER)). 
>>> While executing: CCL::%SHARED-INITIALIZE
>>> Type :POP to abort.
>>>     
>> **********
>> I get the same error when running the tests.
>> I also tried getting the latest Elephant sources from cvs but the sleepycat 
>lib in the latest cvs won't compile:
>> --> src/db-bdb/libsleepycat.c:568: error: 'struct __db' has no member named 
>'compact'
>> I'm using OSX 10.4.7 PPC.
>>
>> Thanks for any help.
>>
>> --------
>> George Khouri
>> gk1 at four-four.com