[rucksack-devel] Rucksack on sbcl: serialize error

[Arthur Lemmens]

Tiarnan O'Corrain wrote:

> I'm trying to get rucksack working on SBCL/NetBSD, and am running into an
> error that seems to be an old chestnut (question was posted in July of this
> year):
>
> There is no applicable method for the generic function
>   #<STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION RUCKSACK::SERIALIZE (17)>
> when called with arguments
>   (#<SB-IMPL::UNIX-HOST {601FB1B1}> #<RUCKSACK::SERIALIZER {615C7A81}>).
>    [Condition of type SIMPLE-ERROR]
>
> Someone mentioned that there was a fix/workaround for this, but it didn't
> get posted (or if it did, I couldn't find it).  Could someone post it here,
> please?

I've just committed the fix (using HOST-NAMESTRING instead of PATHNAME-HOST,
conditionalized on #+SBCL) to CVS, as part of some improvements to the
indexing mechanism.

Please let me know if it doesn't work for you.

Arthur