Hi,

I've encountered some problems while having a look at GSLL (well,
attempting to have a look at GSLL anyway). I can't seem to get started
on an OpenBSD machine or a Xubuntu Linux machine. Any ideas about what
the problem may be?

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Problems on an OpenBSD machine
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lucidrine:/home/hanzer$ dmesg | head -1
OpenBSD 5.3 (GENERIC.MP) #58: Tue Mar 12 18:43:53 MDT 2013

lucidrine:/home/hanzer$ sbcl --version
SBCL 1.0.58.openbsd

-- Installed from /usr/ports --
gsl-1.15
libffi-3.0.9
--

lucidrine:/home/hanzer$ curl -O http://beta.quicklisp.org/quicklisp.lisp

lucidrine:/home/hanzer$ sbcl --load quicklisp.lisp
...
* (quicklisp-quickstart:install)
...
* (ql:add-to-init-file)
...
* (ql:quickload "gsll")

--a bunch of fetching then--

; Loading "gsll"
[package alexandria.0.dev]........................
[package babel-encodings].........................
[package babel]...................................
..................................................
[package cffi-sys]................................
[package cffi]....................................
..................................................
[package cffi-features]...........................
[package cffi-grovel]...........
debugger invoked on a ASDF:LOAD-SYSTEM-DEFINITION-ERROR:
  Error while trying to load definition for system gsll from pathname

/home/hanzer/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/gsll-20130615-git/gsll.asd:
     Unable to load any of the alternatives:
   ("libffi.so.6" "libffi32.so.6" "libffi.so.5" "libffi32.so.5")

Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL.

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Problems on a xubuntu Linux machine
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#30-Ubuntu SMP Wed May 1 16:36:13 UTC 2013 (Ubuntu 3.8.0-19.30-generic
3.8.8)

helix:~$ sbcl --version
SBCL 1.1.1.0.debian

-- Installed from Synaptic --
libgsl0-dev
libgsl0ldbl
libffi6
libffi-dev
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helix:~$ curl -O http://beta.quicklisp.org/quicklisp.lisp
...
helix:~$ sbcl --load quicklisp.lisp
...
* (quicklisp-quickstart:install)
...
  ==== quicklisp installed ====
...
* (ql:quickload "gsll")
...

--a bunch of fetching then--

; Loading "gsll"
..; cc -m32 -I/usr/share/common-lisp/source/cl-cffi/ -fPIC -o
/home/dmagus/.cache/common-lisp/sbcl-1.1.1.0.debian-linux-x86/home/dmagus/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/cffi_0.11.2/libffi/libffi-unix
/home/dmagus/.cache/common-lisp/sbcl-1.1.1.0.debian-linux-x86/home/dmagus/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/cffi_0.11.2/libffi/libffi-unix.c
;
/home/dmagus/.cache/common-lisp/sbcl-1.1.1.0.debian-linux-x86/home/dmagus/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/cffi_0.11.2/libffi/libffi-unix
/home/dmagus/.cache/common-lisp/sbcl-1.1.1.0.debian-linux-x86/home/dmagus/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/cffi_0.11.2/libffi/libffi-unix.grovel-tmp.lisp
.;
; caught ERROR:
;   READ error during COMPILE-FILE:
;
;     Symbol "*BUILT-IN-FLOAT-TYPES*" not found in the CFFI package.
;
;       Line: 36, Column: 49, File-Position: 1632
;
;       Stream: #<SB-SYS:FD-STREAM
;                 for "file
/home/dmagus/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/cffi_0.11.2/libffi/built-in-types.lisp"
;                 {C2C57B9}>

debugger invoked on a LOAD-SYSTEM-DEFINITION-ERROR in thread
#<THREAD "main thread" RUNNING {AB16819}>:
  Error while trying to load definition for system gsll from pathname

/home/dmagus/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/gsll-20130615-git/gsll.asd:
     Error while invoking #<COMPILE-OP NIL {B978391}> on
     #<CL-SOURCE-FILE "cffi-libffi" "libffi" "built-in-types">

Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:EXIT) to exit from SBCL.