[elephant-devel] Clbuild

[Robert L. Read]

On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 08:42 -0400, Ian Eslick wrote:
> #+sbcl :sb-posix  is the way to go.
> 
> I hadn't realized that SBCL didn't include that by default like the  
> rest of the lisps.  Easy fix!
> 
> Robert, any indication as to the source of your clsql errors?  

I will look into tonight, when the kids are in bed.

>  
> Removing the explicit load is good and looks easy.  I'll let you check  
> these fixes in.

Affirmative.

> 
> Also, I was thinking that we should keep the cl-sql database around  
> for the sqlite3 store.  Most system have it, it's easy to use, and can  
> get people going without the install overhead of BDB and/or postmodern/ 
> clsql+postgres or mysql.  When we have a reasonable all-lisp backend  
> then we can revisit the decision to support it.

Yes, that is a good point in favor of keeping cl-sql.

> 
> 
> 
> On May 11, 2008, at 9:43 PM, Bryan Emrys wrote:
> 
> > I'm not a master of anything, but pragmas seem to be the approach  
> > used in hunchentoot (see below).
> >
> > (asdf:defsystem :hunchentoot
> >  :serial t
> >  :version #.*hunchentoot-version*
> >  :depends-on (:chunga
> >               :cl-base64
> >               :cl-fad
> >               :cl-ppcre
> >               #-(or :lispworks :hunchentoot-no-ssl) :cl+ssl
> >               :md5
> >               :rfc2388
> >               #+:sbcl :sb-bsd-sockets
> >               #+:sbcl :sb-posix
> >               :url-rewrite)
> >  :components ((:file "packages")
> >               (:file "conditions")
> >               #+:allegro (:file "port-acl")
> >               #+:clisp (:file "port-clisp")
> >               #+:cmu (:file "port-cmu")
> >               #+:lispworks (:file "port-lw")
> >               #+:openmcl (:file "port-mcl")
> >               #+:sbcl (:file "port-sbcl")
> >               (:file "specials")
> >               (:file "mime-types")
> >               (:file "util")
> >               (:file "log")
> >               (:file "cookie")
> >               (:file "reply")
> >               (:file "request")
> >               (:file "session")
> >               (:file "misc")
> >               (:file "easy-handlers")
> >               (:file "headers")
> >               #+(and :allegro :unix) (:file "unix-acl")
> >               #+(and :clisp :unix) (:file "unix-clisp")
> >               #+(and :cmu :unix) (:file "unix-cmu")
> >               #+(and :lispworks :unix) (:file "unix-lw")
> >               #+(and :openmcl :unix) (:file "unix-mcl")
> >               #+(and :sbcl :unix (not :win32)) (:file "unix-sbcl")
> >               (:file "server")))
> >
> >
> > Bryan
> >
> > On Sunday 11 May 2008 05:12:16 pm Robert L. Read wrote:
> >> On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 14:22 -0700, Bryan Emrys wrote:
> >>> At one point the clbuild maintainers looked at elephant but had  
> >>> some problems that prevented inclusion.
> >>>
> >>> Specifically:
> >>>
> >>> #  - needs sb-posix, but doesn't declare that dependency, meaning  
> >>> that
> >>> #    it doesn't build even with a config file
> >>> #  - ele-clsql loads clsql from the .asd file, not using :depends- 
> >>> on,
> >>> #    which is completely unacceptable
> >>> #    (we blacklist ele-clsql in clbuild.lisp because of that)
> >>>
> >>> Did anyone ever respond?
> >>
> >> Dear Bryan,
> >> 	Thanks for calling this to our attention.  I doubt anyone ever
> >> responded to our being blacklisted, as I have no recollection of it.
> >>
> >> 	I have removed the explicit load, and my tests are red but I doubt  
> >> that
> >> was the problem.
> >>
> >> 	I am not a master of ASDF --- can someone (Bryan?) tell me how we  
> >> can
> >> integrate the fact that we depend on sb-posix into the ASDF
> >> (:depeonds-on ) expressions without dependence on SBCL?  Can we  
> >> just use
> >> a compiler pragma like:
> >>
> >>  :depends-on (:uffi
> >> #+sbcl  :sb-posix
> >> :cl-base64))
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> in our asdf files?  If so we will have to do something similar for
> >> each supported system (see os.lisp):
> >>
> >>
> >> (defmacro in-directory ((dir) &body body)
> >>  `(progn
> >>     (#+sbcl sb-posix:chdir
> >>      #+cmu unix:unix-chdir
> >>      #+allegro excl:chdir
> >>      #+lispworks hcl:change-directory
> >>      #+openmcl ccl:cwd
> >>      ,dir)
> >>     , at body))
> >>
> >> Finally, our documentation build system, make-ref.lisp, seems to be  
> >> more
> >> deeply SBCL dependent than anything in Elephant;  but that doesn't  
> >> hurt
> >> much, as we normally build and publish the documentation with each
> >> release anyway.  I wonder if we could just make the documentation  
> >> build
> >> a separate package, in order to satisfy the clbuild requirements?
> >>
> >>
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