Luís Oliveira wrote:
On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 2:08 PM, Greg Bennett <gwbennett@sentex.ca> wrote:
;;; I rescued cl-cffi via ;;; sudo apt-get install cl-cffi ;;; which did its job correctly, as far as I can see, but I am no judge ;;; of all that is involved in installation on linux.
In my experience, using Debian/Ubuntu Lisp packages is often more trouble than it's worth. I haven't used those in a while, but from the output that you sent it doesn't seem like it's a CFFI issue. I'd start by trying SBCL instead of CMUCL, and if that doesn't work I would go for clbuild[1].
HTH.
Luis, thanks for you information. I shall certainly look into clbuild. You were quite correct in diagnosing that my difficulty was not a CFFI issue. At the suggestion of Dmitry Kalyanov I re-did my efforts running CMUCL as root -> all was well. Thus linux permissions were an issue somewhere in the processes, I assume. Cheers /Greg Bennett