[usocket-devel] Compile failure on CLISP 2.46

[Erik Huelsmann]

On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 1:54 AM, Zach Beane <xach at xach.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 12:37:37AM +0200, Leslie P. Polzer wrote:
>>
>> > Does it work if you put this:
>> >
>> >   (ffi:default-foreign-language :stdc)
>> >   (ffi:default-foreign-library "libc.so.6") ;; or whatever your libc is
>> >
>> > into your ~/.clisprc ?
>>
>> If this doesn't help, try adding
>>
>>   #+unix (:library "libc.so.6") ;; or darwin if you need it
>>
>> in backend/clisp.lisp, right below:
>>
>> (FFI:DEF-CALL-OUT get-host-name-internal
>>          (:name "gethostname")
>>          (:arguments (name (FFI:C-PTR (FFI:C-ARRAY-MAX ffi:character 256))
>>                            :OUT :ALLOCA)
>>                      (len ffi:int))
>>          #+win32 (:library "WS2_32")
>
> I used #+macos (:library "libc.dylib") and it did the trick, thanks. I
> think a similar trick may be needed on non-Mac Unixes.

The reason it's not there yet is that I'm unaware of a good way to
detect which libc version is installed on a system. Or would it always
be libc.so.6?

Bye,

Erik.