[Openmcl-devel] Re: compiling cl-sdl with openmcl

[Barry Perryman]

On 27/1/03 7:24 pm, "nik gaffney" <nik at f0.am> wrote:

>> I need to fix up the conditional compilation mess a bit.  I guess
>> OpenMCL doesn't have the UNIX feature by default.  Try pushing it onto
>> *features*.
> 
> i tried this, but still get the same error.  :/
> 
> ? *features*
> (:UNIX :UFFI :ASDF :MK-DEFSYSTEM :COMMON-LISP-CONTROLLER :PRIMARY-CLASSES :CCL
> :CCL-2 :CCL-3 :CCL-4 :CORAL :COMMON-LISP :MCL :OPENMCL :ANSI-CL :PROCESSES
> :EABI-TARGET :INTERFACES-2 :POWERPC :PPC-TARGET :PPC-CLOS :LINUX-HOST
> :LINUX-TARGET :LINUXPPC-TARGET)
> ? (require :sdl)
> ;;; Please wait, recompiling library...
> ;;; Please wait, recompiling library...
>> Error: Can't create directory /usr/lib/common-lisp/openmcl/sdl-ffi/.
>> While executing: ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST
>> Type :POP to abort.
> Type :? for other options.
> 1 > 
> 

This looks like a unix permissions problem. Try doing a
 
chown -R <your user id> /usr/lib/common-lisp/openmcl

Or alternatively su to root then compile the code up and chown the results.

man 8 chown in a terminal for further details.

Barry



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