[elephant-devel] 0.60 tarball missing

[Ian Eslick]

I have no idea where this error is coming from.  From your earlier e- 
mail I'm assuming that you are running the tarball version of  
elephant-0.6.0.  It sounds like you may be trying to call asdf on ele- 
acache.  Acache is an allegro common lisp only backend and it is only  
partially implemented anyway.  (We probably should have removed the  
ele-acache.asd from the tarball, it's in contrib now and won't be  
part of the release).

The proper thing to do is call asdf on ele-bdb (if using Berkeley DB)  
or ele-clsql (if using a SQL backend).  There should be some good  
directions in the INSTALL file.

If that doesn't fix it, please give us more information about the  
context in which you got this error.  Elephant 0.6.0 and the current  
CVS both have been fairly extensively tested on SBCL so any problems  
are likely configuration errors.

Moreover, if you are not in a terrible rush, you probably want to  
wait for the 0.6.1 release that is forthcoming.  We're just putting  
finishing touches on now, but other than some build issues in  
Windows, OpenMCL verification and a ton of new documentation, it's  
done.  You can get started with the latest CVS and the formal 0.6.1  
release will be available via asdf-install in a couple of weeks.

asdf-install doesn't solve all the problems when you have external  
dependencies like a database, however.  You'll still have to do some  
work to get it running although that should be easier now.

While Elephant may eventually have a model where it needs no external  
C libraries or outside databases, but that day may be a long time  
coming.

Ian

PS - I'll be doing a rash of checkins over the next week, but almost  
all of them are to clean up documentation strings so the manual reads  
more easily, etc.

On Mar 29, 2007, at 8:49 PM, Erik Garrison wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 02:34:54AM +0200, Edi Weitz wrote:
>> On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 12:23:05 +1200, Erik Garrison  
>> <erik.garrison at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> debugger invoked on a SB-FASL::INVALID-FASL-VERSION:
>>>   #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "file
>>> /usr/local/lib/sbcl/site/elephant/src/memutil/ 
>>> memutil.fasl" {B07E029}>
>>> is in native code fasl file format version 63, but this version  
>>> of SBCL
>>> uses format version 72.
>>
>> Add this code to your ~/.sbclrc file:
>>
>>   (defmethod asdf:perform :around ((o asdf:load-op) (c asdf:cl- 
>> source-file))
>>     (handler-case
>>       (call-next-method o c)
>>       (sb-ext:invalid-fasl ()
>>         (asdf:perform (make-instance 'asdf:compile-op) c)
>>         (call-next-method))))
>
> Sweet!  This does the trick.
>
> Now I get:
>
> ; compiling (REQUIRE :ACACHE)
> debugger invoked on a SB-INT:EXTENSION-FAILURE:
>   Don't know how to REQUIRE ACACHE.
>
> What is acache?
>
> -Erik
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