Hey Everyone,
I am not sure how everyone got their new Hunchentoot server setup but I had a kind of rough experience and wanted to share so that maybe it is spared from the next guy giving Hunchentoot. Below is my humble experience feel free to tell me where I went wrong (if I did) or in posting possible solutions
First off, I use an Ubuntu installation and unfortunately all there repositories for cl code seem to be out of date and hence it will cause alot of pain. I had to go through uninstalling everything for cl downloaded using apt-get. Second, if you choose to use ASDF-INSTALL you are in for some trouble too. I tried ASDF-INSTALL a couple of times but to no avail. Hunchentoot is installed and you can load a server but you can not get it to reply. My guess is that one of the socket code libraries happen to be the problem but I am not sure of that. If it is any help Drakma kept pointing out an issue with sockets! (I can reproduce the error if any one wants). Third and finally, I tried clbuild which I am glad to say works but with a twist. For some reason, which I have not yet gotten to, clbuild can not tell that Hunchentoot depends on Bordeaux-threads (and consequently lift) or Usockets (and consequently split-sequence) and therefore will not download them. I had to install each on its own. After that, everything works beautifully.
I am not sure how much this info is actionable, after all it is not an issue of Hunchentoot fundamentally; however without some guidelines to those who do not keep updated libraries (dracs copies :) ) getting Hunchentoot to run might be too much.
Just my 2 cents on an otherwise awesome project :)
Mackram Raydan
Website: www.trailoflight.net (unfortunately does not run Hunchentoot ---- YET). "An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come." Victor Hugo
Hi Mackram,
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Mackram Raydan mackram@gmail.com wrote:
Hey Everyone,
I am not sure how everyone got their new Hunchentoot server setup but I had a kind of rough experience and wanted to share so that maybe it is spared from the next guy giving Hunchentoot. Below is my humble experience feel free to tell me where I went wrong (if I did) or in posting possible solutions
First off, I use an Ubuntu installation and unfortunately all there repositories for cl code seem to be out of date and hence it will cause alot of pain. I had to go through uninstalling everything for cl downloaded using apt-get.
It is unfortunate, but the debian packages and so also the ubuntu packages have always been out of date. The cl- packages are not important to the ubuntu project, as such, so they just use the debian defaults. My personal experience has been to avoid any of the apt-get lisp packages like the plague.
Second, if you choose to use ASDF-INSTALL you are in for some trouble too. I tried ASDF-INSTALL a couple of times but to no avail. Hunchentoot is installed and you can load a server but you can not get it to reply. My guess is that one of the socket code libraries happen to be the problem but I am not sure of that. If it is any help Drakma kept pointing out an issue with sockets! (I can reproduce the error if any one wants).
Sorry, I have no recent experience with asdf install.
Third and finally, I tried clbuild which I am glad to say works but with a twist. For some reason, which I have not yet gotten to, clbuild can not tell that Hunchentoot depends on Bordeaux-threads (and consequently lift) or Usockets (and consequently split-sequence) and therefore will not download them. I had to install each on its own. After that, everything works beautifully.
I find this odd, I use clbuild for my lisp stuff, and it works a treat. But a quick ./clbuild update hunchentoot shows that you are correct. I will mention this on the clbuild mailing list. There was a glitch where the ediware packages were not being updated properly, but that was fixed very promptly after I winged. :)
So, bordeaux-threads and Usockets must be added to the dependencies. I will ask on the mailing list. Thanks for the heads up, because I keep referring people to clbuild.
Thanks for the report.
Rohan
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