[Openmcl-devel] UFFI on ccl 1.5+

[Ian Eslick]

You are right that a change like the one you forwarded broke the way that Elephant was using CCL's MOP support to handle change-class and related MOP functionality thus all the test errors.  Digging into Elephant's MOP is pretty involved (I've been off that project for too long), so I'm moving my two projects back over to run on SBCL for the time being.  The low-level issue I saw with an inability to open database files may be a CCL-specific issue or a configuration problem on my end but until I or someone else makes the latest Elephant work with CCL-1.5+, I don't need to worry about it.

Thanks for looking into this.

Best,
Ian

On Dec 1, 2011, at 8:23 PM, R. Matthew Emerson wrote:

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> On Dec 1, 2011, at 9:06 PM, Ian Eslick wrote:
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>> I have a running system (LAMsight) based on Elephant that has been running on ccl 1.4 for quite some time.  I am trying to upgrade to a more recent release (1.7 on 64-bit Mac 10.7 or Linux Debian 5.0) and am having low-level problems with the Berkeley DB wrapper.  
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>> I'm using the latest quicklisp version of UFFI 2.0 which works with my version of Elephant 1.0 (almost identical to the public version) and it runs and passes the regression suite fine on 1.4, but I am unable to even open a database under ccl 1.7.
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>> This leads me to ask a few questions:
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>> #1) What changes between version 1.4 and 1.7 might have influenced low level pointer manipulation in C library wrappers?
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>> #2) It's been years since I've had to debug these low level interactions; is there anyone with CCL/OpenMCL expertise interested in helping debug Elephant+UFFI to make it compatible with the latest CCL?  
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> I installed bdb4.5 and elephant from quicklisp on a Mac OS X 10.6 system.
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> I tried to run the elephant tests with bdb (and had to quickload fiveam), and I did get a lot of test failures and several CERRORs mentioning dropped slots, but I didn't see any issues with the FFI.  The test programs were able to create and use databases.
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> At a higher level, it might be the case that http://trac.clozure.com/ccl/changeset/15001 is a change that might affect elephant in some way (but hopefully for the better).