Hi David,
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 12:40 +0100, David Lichteblau wrote:
Quoting Dietrich Bollmann (diresu@web.de):
When trying to test the system from the clim example programs the "DemoDemo" window popped up and I could start one of the demos. Thereafter things stopped to work and the windows to repaint.
This is unrelated to the error you mentioned, but does your SBCL have sb-thread support enabled? I seem to recall that demodemo might hang when used without threads.
Probably I did not: no `sb-thread' found when evaluating `*features*'...
Thanks. I will rebuild sbcl with sb-thread enabled next week and try again.
By the way: When searching for documentation about how to install mcclim I haven't seen any hint indicating the need to do so.
The same lack of information when searching for instructions about how to enable `sb-thread'. I finally found them hidden in the sbcl INSTALL file when grepping for `sb-thread' though.
Both is probably my fault as others do not seem to have the same problems. But some more information might make things easier for people like me :)
(I don't mean to complain - this is just meant as an idea about how to make the world a better place :)
An exception, appended to this message, was signalled.
In the exception message I could read: ...(possible package problem)...
Ok, but how to find the one combination of packages which works?
Which one of the demos is that?
I just tried some of them, and indeed Troels' recent climacs changes must have caused some trouble. I noticed that the tab layout demo signals a flexichain error. But I didn't see the error you got.
Some of the demos worked fine for me, including clim-fig, the calculator, the address book, the logic cube, ...
As far as I remember it was the calculator.
I also tried the drawing tool (first example button) and I think a similar exception message was shown.
Should I rather follow some other installation instructions, use some other tool (clbuild ?), ...?
That is also an option. I recently updated http://mcclim.cliki.net/Getting%20started%20using%20clbuild for current clbuild.
Thanks, but if all of you use the cvs directly I probably better do the same?
It would be nice if the sbcl and clim packages for Debian etc. would be updated on a regular basis also. This would make things much easier for the rest of the world - which would be the best publicity for lisp.
Thanks for your help - I probably would have spend a week to find a way out of my problems without your help :)
Dietrich
d.