[Gsll-devel] cffi-grovel

[ozgur]

I'm sorry i realized that i had forgotten the second backtick in the
command, it should be:
$ for i in *.asd; do `ln -s $PWD/$i -t ~/.sbcl/systems`; done

On Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 11:25 AM, ozgur <ozgurican at gmail.com> wrote:

> - First; uninstall (purge) Ubuntu version of cl-cffi.
> - Then make a folder like $HOME/lisp-repo in your homedirectory.
> - Then search for the  ".sbcl" folder in your home. If there is not any;
> create one and a sub folder named "systems".
> - Then cd to $HOME/lisp-repo and pull the latest cffi on the darcs repo
> with the following command:
>   $ darcs get http://common-lisp.net/project/cffi/darcs/cffi/
> - And lastly cd to $HOME/lisp-repo/cffi and  issue the following command
> that make symbolic links of each *.asd file residing current directory in
> the folder $HOME/.sbcl/systems:
>   $ for i in *.asd; do `ln -s $PWD/$i -t ~/.sbcl/systems; done
>
> Now open Emacs and when you start slime and required gsll it should work.
> If it does not; go to
> http://common-lisp.net/project/cffi/manual/html_node/Installation.htmlwhere cffi's dependencies are explained (i.e. Alexandira, Babel and
> trivial-features). Go download them and make the same things above for them
> also and try again.
>
>
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 10:47 PM, A.J. Rossini <blindglobe at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Jim -
>>
>> You need a recent version of CFFI (more recent than Debian's packaged
>> versions), and then need to recompile.
>>
>> Works nicely once you get to that stage.
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 6:16 PM, Malcolm
>> Reynolds<malcolm.reynolds at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi Jim,
>> >
>> > One option you do have is to acquire asdf-install, which should
>> > automagically setup all the dependencies for you. I tend to think it's
>> > a better idea to do things manually though, especially when you're
>> > starting out, because then you get a better grasp of how things work.
>> > I was in your position (new to doing any serious work in common lisp
>> > and new to gsll and asdf) only a few months ago, and I think the time
>> > setting up asdf and installing stuff manually was time well spent.
>> >
>> > To address your specific problem, are all the libraries you're working
>> > with at their latest versions? I don't bother getting tarballs any
>> > more, I found pretty much every library I've been interested in has a
>> > publically accessible repository for either darcs, git, svn or
>> > something similar. Get fresh pulls of at least gsll and cffi, delete
>> > any .fasl files you might have kicking around, and try again.
>> >
>> > I think you are right about cffi-grovel now being integrated into cffi
>> > - I have a relatively fresh setup that I put together when I
>> > recompiled sbcl a few weeks ago, and I have no .asd file for
>> > cffi-grovel and indeed if I try and do (asdf:operate asdf:load-op
>> > :cffi-grovel) I get an error that the component cannot be found.
>> >
>> > Hope this helps,
>> >
>> > Malcolm
>> >
>> > On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Jim<jim_garrett at comcast.net> wrote:
>> >> 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
>> >>
>> >>
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>>
>> --
>> best,
>> -tony
>>
>> blindglobe at gmail.com
>> Muttenz, Switzerland.
>> "Commit early,commit often, and commit in a repository from which we
>> can easily roll-back your mistakes" (AJR, 4Jan05).
>>
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> Ozgur
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