Re: uffi and clsql-mysql and AMD_64

Thanks for your advice.  I will report these issues to the portage
maintainer(s).

I will use the tarballs for both clsql and uffi.  I'm gaining nothing
by using package management here.

I am most grateful for your speedy and accurate assistance with this
issue.  It's like getting the CEO on the phone on a Sunday.  Wow.  And I
can't wait to start using your library, which quite obviously represents
a lot of time and hard work.  I will try to make it better by getting
the gentoo package fixed.

Thanks,
Carlos

On Sun, 28 Aug 2005, Kevin Rosenberg wrote:

> Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2005 22:35:30 -0600
> From: Kevin Rosenberg <kevin@...>
> To: Carlos Konstanski <ckonstan@...>
> Cc: clsql mailing list <clsql-help@...>
> Subject: Re: [CLSQL-Help] uffi and clsql-mysql and AMD_64
> 
> Carlos Konstanski wrote:
>> Whee!  We got past that problem.  Thanks for the debian vs. gentoo
>> path tip.  The box that worked off the shelf was, in addition to being
>> a 32 bit machine, also a debian build.  The 64 bit machine is gentoo.
>> It wasn't a 64 bit problem; it was more a gentoo problem.  Here's
>
> That's correct. Is this some gentoo packaged version of CLSQL that you
> are using? If so, you should report these problems to the gentoo
> maintainer and have then look at the Debian package for an example of
> correct packaging.
>
>> On the roll with gentoo problems, now I'm getting a missing makefile.
>> This file does not exist on the debian machine either, however.  If it
>> did, I would have been tempted to copy it over.  Is it a temporarily
>> written and deleted file?  Seems unlikely, given the location (owned
>> [...]
>> ; $ cd /usr/share/common-lisp/source/clsql-mysql/db-mysql/; make
>> make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found.  Stop.
>
> Egads. I have no idea where the Makefile is on your system. For the
> Debian package, the Makefiles are not included since the .so files are
> created Debian autobuilder and are not needed.
>
> Given the rather broken Gentoo package, perhaps you'd be better off
> using CLSQL from the tarball at http://files.b9.com/clsql. At a
> minimum you can get the Makefile from there.
>
> Seriously, I'd report these bugs to the gentoo maintainer. In a case
> such are yours, you could have been up and running with much less
> hassle using the plain tarball than fighting the buggy packaging.
>
> Kevin
>