[Gsll-devel] extra info in the example section

[Mirko Vukovic]

See below:

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Liam Healy <lhealy at common-lisp.net> wrote:
> I'm not sure what you're looking for here, but I've never
> had  "GSL libraries not loadable" (not sure what you mean
> here; not found in the path?).  Doesn't the form
> (cffi:use-foreign-library libgsl)
> at the end of init/init.lisp fail with some kind of reasonable
> error message if it doesn't find the libraries?   What else
> is needed?
>
> Liam
>
> On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Mirko Vukovic <mirko.vukovic at gmail.com> wrote:
> ...
>>
>> Good idea.  Here is another one that would be useful even for the
>> pros.  A gsll-probe, that would probe the system to make sure that
>> gsll is loadable.  The main thing that comes to mind, and that can
>> look scary to a newbie is if the gsl libraries are not loadable.

I was thinking of absolute Newbies who get horrified when lisp drops
into a debugger.  A way to deal with that might be to use exception
handling with `gentler' messages.

And other than finding libraries, sometimes the libraries are not
loadable:  with SBCL1.0.34, I got an `offset' error (don't remember
exactly what), and with 1.0.37, I could not load 64-bit libraries.

Anyways, I don't mean to throw this task to you.  I'll think about an
implementation, and if I come up with something sensible, I will post
it here.

Mirko