One other suggestion ... it is my understanding that elephant foreign
calls are *only* made through clsql, so the problem maybe with clsql.
I recompiled mine from scratch and haven't seen this issue since.

-deech

On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 1:02 PM, aditya siram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi there,
> I was having similar problems with SBCL 1.0.21. My workaround is
> outlined in the thread "Issues adding to root". Basically it seems
> like you need to add the "cffi-uffi-compat" packages and *not* cffi or
> uffi.
>
> This maybe an SBCL-only solution, so I hope this works you.
> -deech
>
> On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 1:23 AM, GP lisper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> in elephant 0.9 with cmucl snapshot from September 08, I find:
>>
>> CL-USER> (load "library:subsystems/berkeley-db")
>> T
>> CL-USER> (require :elephant)
>> ; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/elephant-0.9/elephant.asd".
>> ; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/cl-base64-3.3.2/cl-base64.asd".
>> ; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/uffi-1.5.15/uffi.asd".
>> ; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/uffi-1.5.15/src/package.x86f".
>> ; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/uffi-1.5.15/src/primitives.x86f".
>> ; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/uffi-1.5.15/src/objects.x86f".
>> ; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/uffi-1.5.15/src/aggregates.x86f".
>> ; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/uffi-1.5.15/src/functions.x86f".
>> ; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/uffi-1.5.15/src/strings.x86f".
>> ; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/uffi-1.5.15/src/libraries.x86f".
>> ; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/uffi-1.5.15/src/os.x86f".
>> ; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/cl-base64-3.3.2/package.x86f".
>> ; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/cl-base64-3.3.2/encode.x86f".
>> ; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/cl-base64-3.3.2/decode.x86f".
>> ; Loading 
>> #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/elephant-0.9/src/utils/package.x86f".
>> ; Loading 
>> #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/elephant-0.9/src/utils/convenience.x86f".
>> ; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/elephant-0.9/src/utils/locks.x86f".
>> ; Loading #P"CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/elephant-0.9/src/utils/os.x86f".
>> Attempting to load libmemutil.so...
>> ; Compiling: 
>> CMUCL-19e-SEP-08/subsystems/elephant-0.9/src/memutil/memutil.lisp 28 APR 07 
>> 07:10:55 pm
>> ...
>> ; Compiling DEFUN RETURN-BUFFER-STREAM:
>> ; Converted WITH-BUFFER-STREAMS.
>> ; Compiling DEFMACRO WITH-BUFFER-STREAMS:
>>
>>
>> Error in function ALIEN::%PARSE-ALIEN-TYPE:  Unknown alien type: 
>> UNSIGNED-CHAR
>>
>>
>> I'm not familiar enough with Alien to track this down.  Perhaps CMUCL
>> is not as supported as in the past?
>>
>> --
>> One of the strokes of genius from McCarthy was making lists the center of 
>> the language - kt
>>
>>
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