Re: [Sbcl-devel] Problem with sb-bsd-sockets

[Nikodemus S. <tsi...@cc...>]

On Sun, 8 Aug 2004, Chris Capel wrote:

> Sorry about the confusion. I *do* have alien.so, and in the right
> place.  What I *don't* have in the tarball are alien/get-h-errno.so
> and alien/undefs.so.  These are the two files that ASDF tries to
> compile if they don't exist when I load Araneida.  I have the object
> files (and the sources) for get-h-errno and undefs, but not the shared
> object library files.

This is extremely bizarre. The alien.so is the correct and only .so you're 
supposed to have. There is no get-h-errno.so, and no undefs.so, and asdf 
shouldn't be trying to make any such.

Like Christophe mentioned, the likeliest sounding causes are date-stamp 
skew on the files, or something goes *boink* in your SBCL before you
get around to loading sb-bsd-sockets.

For the date-stamp skew it might be instructive to use FILE-WRITE-DATE
to compate the ages of the alien.so, alien.c, alien/get-h-errno.c, and
alien/undefs.c. (The alien.so should be newest.)

For others, starting SBCL with

  env SBCL_HOME=/usr/local/lib/sbcl sbcl --userinit /dev/null --sysinit /dev/null

then doing

  (require :sb-bsd-sockets)

as the first thing -- and if the error occurs, repeating the 
exercise with FILE-WRITE-DATE, and getting a backtrace.

Cheers,

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