Re: [Sbcl-devel] Does SBCL work under FreeBSD 4.5.1?

[Nikodemus S. <nik...@ra...>]

"Anton" <ya...@ya...> writes:

> Hi all.
>
> I've installed SBCL under FreeBSD 4.5.1. After I run /usr/local/bin/sbcl it
> shows a bunner ("This is SBCL 0.9.16, an implementation of ...") and then
> dies with message:
>
> /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1: /usr/local/bin/sbcl: Undefined symbol
> "nl_langinfo".
>
> Why does this happen?

SBCL uses nl_langinfo to obtain locale information. It seems that it appears
in FreeBSD 4.5:

  http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2004-March/038849.html

Options are to update, or to patch SBCL to detect lack of nl_langinfo
dynamically, and manage without it.

Cheers,

  -- Nikodemus              Schemer: "Buddha is small, clean, and serious."
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