[Openmcl-devel] Specifying interface db file locations

[Duncan Rose]

Thanks for the response; unfortunately use-interface-dir doesn't seem 
to help. Maybe I'm not using it correctly. For example, my error 
message is:

Warning: Interface file #4P"ccl:darwin-headers;cocoa;records.cdb" does 
not exist.

Specifying (use-interface-dir ...) allows me to specify the "cocoa" bit 
in the middle. So openmcl still attempts to look in 
"ccl:darwin-headers;<my bit>;records.cdb". The problem is that in my 
saved image, "ccl:" doesn't seem to map to where I want it to be.

If I use /usr/local/openmcl/ccl/dppccl as my image, the interface files 
are found with no problem. If however I build an image using bosco (so 
the dppccl / dppccl.image files are written to a subdirectory of 
Bosco.app) the new image can't find the interface files.

I assumed that maybe the ccl: (device?) part of the path was being set 
relative to the image. Copying the darwin-headers directory into the 
location the image is doesn't work however (e.g. the bosco application 
is set up:

    Bosco.app/
      Contents/
        MacOS/
          dppccl
          dppccl.image
          darwin-headers/

after copying the headers directory but ccl::cdb-open can't find the 
interface files. Making a ccl/ directory at the same level as the 
MacOS/ directory and putting the darwin-headers/ under there doesn't 
help either).

To be honest I don't want to be copying the interface files around 
anyway. But I'd still like openmcl to be able to find them.

If I start a usual openmcl session and (require "COCOA") to get the 
cocoa listener up I don't observe the same problems, so I'm figuring at 
the moment I'm configuring something wrongly when I build my image (I 
think I'm correct in believing that the cocoa ide uses a different 
image within which to run). I just don't know what.

-Duncan


On Sunday, December 14, 2003, at 03:10 PM, Camille Troillard wrote:

> Hi Duncan,
>
>
> Gary answered me to that question, here is his quote:
>
>
>> In order to use any of the interfaces that're
>> in subdirectories of ccl:darwin-heades; you need to do:
>>
>> ? (use-interface-dir :subdir)
>>
>> The idea of trying to segregate things like this - making
>> it necessary to explicitly "use" a set of interefaces -
>> was and is to minimize the possibility of name conflicts.
>>
>> OpenMCL does the equivalent of:
>>
>> (use-interface-dir :libc)
>>
>> everytime it starts up, so the standard C library
>> things are accessible.
>
>
> Hope it helps,
>
> Best,
> Camille
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: openmcl-devel-bounces at clozure.com
>> [mailto:openmcl-devel-bounces at clozure.com] On Behalf Of Duncan Rose
>> Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 3:01 PM
>> To: openmcl-devel at clozure.com
>> Subject: [Openmcl-devel] Specifying interface db file locations
>>
>>
>>
>> Is there a way to specify where the interface db files are
>> located? It
>> appears that lisp images saved somewhere other than the ccl directory
>> can't find them.
>>
>> Thanks for any help,
>>
>> -Duncan
>>
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