[Gsll-devel] cffi-grovel

[Jim]

Hello everyone,

This is my first post to this list.  I've just installed gsll and I'm 
very much looking forward to using it for numeric programming in Common 
Lisp.  Thanks in advance for gsll!

However, I can't seem to get it going.  I'm somewhat new to Common Lisp, 
and very new to asdf.  And I find that much Common Lisp documentation 
attempts to be so general that it is mostly useful for people who 
already know the answers.  I suspect I am missing something very simple, 
and has nothing to do with gsll so much as setting up packages in Common 
Lisp.  Nevertheless, I'm not sure whom to ask.

I'm running SBCL with SLIME under Ubuntu 8.10.  I followed the gsll 
installation instructions under "With Debian or Ubuntu", and had no 
apparent errors.  I started SLIME and entered "(asdf:operate 
'asdf:load-op :gsll)" and obtained the error "component "cffi-grovel" 
not found".

It appears that I do have cffi, and all the information I can find about 
cffi-grovel indicates that it is now integrated with cffi.  So I can't 
add a package but I can't seem to use what I have.  What should I do?

Once again, please keep in mind that I am just a beginner regarding asdf 
and cffi.

Thank you!

Jim Garrett
Baltimore, Maryland, USA