[elephant-devel] BDB stores don't work on my 32-bit Debian box either

[Henrik Hjelte]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Sebastian Tennant
<sebyte at smolny.plus.com> wrote:
>
>  end of file on #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM for "file
>  /home/sebyte/lisp/cl/clbuild/source/elephant/src/db-bdb/berkeley-constants" {BB13669}>
>    [Condition of type END-OF-FILE]                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> If I repeat it a thrid time I get the same error, so there's definitely a
> problem with berkeley-constants.
>
> For the last time:
>
>  Debian Lenny, i386 32-bit
>  SBCL 1.0.32.14
>  elephant-1.0 from darcs
>  BDB 4.7
>  All other dependencies up-to-date as far as clbuild is concerned.

You could perhaps try to remove all fasl and generated files and
recompile with an older sbcl version. Sbcl can have bugs sometimes.

> I'm starting to wonder if many people really use elephant, and whether any
> elephant developers actually read this list?

I and Alex use elephant on GNU/Linux, but the postgresql backend.

> In short, I'm starting to become pretty disillusioned with elephant in
> particular and the state of Common Lisp libraries generally.
> Is it because I'm using bleeding edge versions of everything I wonder?

Yes, that would be my guess.

/Henrik