LispWorks on Mandrake Linux

Hello,

I have installed Mandrake linux 9.0 on my pc and since I get the
following error when I attempt to run LispWorks (professional):

$ /usr/local/lib/LispWorks/lispworks-4200
 
Error: FIND-NAMED-WIN32-PROC-INDIRECT "errno" (unicode switch :NO)
 
Type :b for backtrace, :c <option number> to proceed,  or :? for
other options
 
CL-USER 1 : 1 > Segmentation fault

I removed Lispworks rpm and re-installed it from the CD but the problem
remains.

Any suggestion is much appreciated.

Thanks,

Thibault Langlois

Re: LispWorks on Mandrake Linux

Thibault Langlois <tl@di.fc.ul.pt> writes:

> I have installed Mandrake linux 9.0 on my pc and since I get the
> following error when I attempt to run LispWorks (professional):
> 
> $ /usr/local/lib/LispWorks/lispworks-4200
>  
> Error: FIND-NAMED-WIN32-PROC-INDIRECT "errno" (unicode switch :NO)
>  
> Type :b for backtrace, :c <option number> to proceed,  or :? for
> other options
>  
> CL-USER 1 : 1 > Segmentation fault
> 
> I removed Lispworks rpm and re-installed it from the CD but the problem
> remains.
> 
> Any suggestion is much appreciated.

This seems to have happened before (google):

http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2002/debian-glibc-200212/msg00369.html

I am not sure what they are talking about there but it looks like you
have to up- or downgrade your glibc.

Regards,
-- 
Nils Gösche
"Don't ask for whom the <CTRL-G> tolls."

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Re: LispWorks on Mandrake Linux

On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 19:17, Kevin Rosenberg wrote:

> Nils Goesche wrote:
> > > $ /usr/local/lib/LispWorks/lispworks-4200
> > > Error: FIND-NAMED-WIN32-PROC-INDIRECT "errno" (unicode switch :NO)
> >=20
> > This seems to have happened before (google):
> > http://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2002/debian-glibc-200212/msg00369.ht=
> ml
> >=20
> > I am not sure what they are talking about there but it looks like you
> > have to up- or downgrade your glibc.
> 
> Yes, it's definitely a glibc problem that the Debian glibc guys
> patched. I'm not sure where that patch is relative to the upstream
> glibc.
> 

Thanks to Nils and Kevin, I'll try to upgrade glibc.

> BTW, if you really want to do lisp on Linux, I strongly encourage you
> to check out Debian. There are nearly 100 Common Lisp packages in the
> sarge and sid distributions which all transparently compile and load
> using Debian's Common Lisp Controller.
> 

I heard lot of people praise Debian linux. I will try it some day on my
home computer but in the particular case the computer is my employer's
and I did not have the choice of the distribution. 

> For example, to install clsql-mysql (and transparent also install
> uffi), you'd give the command
>   apt-get install cl-sql-mysql
> 
> Then, in Lispworks, you'd just give the command
>   (require 'clsql-mysql)
> to have uffi and clsql automatically compiled (if necessary) and
> loaded.
> 
> Common Lisp Controller supports lispworks, allegro, sbcl, cmucl, and
> clisp.
> 

-- 
Thibault Langlois <tl@di.fc.ul.pt>
FCUL / DI