On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 18:44 -0400, Jeffrey Straszheim wrote:
Kim Stebel wrote:
Hello group,
I'm new to LISP and i'm trying to set up a basic "Hello World"-website with Hunchentoot. I'm using SBCL 1.0.6 on linux(ubuntu gutsy) and installed hunchentoot via asdf-install.
Hi Kim,
In addition to what others have said, your version of SBCL is rather out of date. This happens a lot with the pre-packaged distributions you get from the various Linux sites.
I suggest you clean out your entire SBCL install, and go to the SBCL site and get the latest version. I recently asked a similar question on the SBCL mailing list, and a fellow named Brian gave me this advice:
I would recommend staying away from distribution packages for SBCL. Just download the latest binary from the web site, install it, and use it to compile the latest sources. It's relatively straightforward; the only thing that's even moderately tricky is building with threads. To do that, create a file named "customize-target-features.lisp" in the root of the SBCL sources containing something like: (lambda (list) (cons :sb-thread list)) Then just build SBCL as usual ("sh make.sh").It worked fine.
Yes - but that's incredible overkill. What problem does this actually solve. Is there _any_ change in SBCLs between in, say, Ubuntu 7.10 and the current CVS version that changes the behaviour of SBCL or fixes prominent bugs? The only features I can think of are thread and unicode support.
The poroblems that usually pop up in mailing lists are almost allways related to old[1] versions of _libraries_ and the proper way to procede here would be to nagg the package maintainer ... Or - even better, learn the basics of package building on your prefered distribution and build your up-to-date local versions. I can only speak for Debian/Ubuntu here, but I maintain local versions of most of the CL libs I need for my projects and updating usually involves little more than a VC update and an 'debchange -ni' to update the package version.
And iff you feel generous you might even offer your packages to the Debian CL folks ...
Yust my 0.02 cents
Cheers, Ralf Mattes