See below: On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Liam Healy <lhe...@common-lisp.net> wrote: > I'm not sure what you're looking for here, but I've never > had "GSL libraries not loadable" (not sure what you mean > here; not found in the path?). Doesn't the form > (cffi:use-foreign-library libgsl) > at the end of init/init.lisp fail with some kind of reasonable > error message if it doesn't find the libraries? What else > is needed? > > Liam > > On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 8:56 AM, Mirko Vukovic <mirko.vuko...@gmail.com> > wrote: > ... >> >> Good idea. Here is another one that would be useful even for the >> pros. A gsll-probe, that would probe the system to make sure that >> gsll is loadable. The main thing that comes to mind, and that can >> look scary to a newbie is if the gsl libraries are not loadable.
I was thinking of absolute Newbies who get horrified when lisp drops into a debugger. A way to deal with that might be to use exception handling with `gentler' messages. And other than finding libraries, sometimes the libraries are not loadable: with SBCL1.0.34, I got an `offset' error (don't remember exactly what), and with 1.0.37, I could not load 64-bit libraries. Anyways, I don't mean to throw this task to you. I'll think about an implementation, and if I come up with something sensible, I will post it here. Mirko _______________________________________________ Gsll-devel mailing list Gsll-devel@common-lisp.net http://common-lisp.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gsll-devel
