[gambit-list] Illegal character

Joel J. Adamson adamsonj at email.unc.edu
Sat Jun 28 23:00:08 EDT 2008


"Jeff Read" <bitwize at gmail.com> writes:

> Joel,
>
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 1:23 PM, Joel J. Adamson <adamsonj at email.unc.edu> wrote:
>
>> I have compiled a dynamically-loadable library as per the Gambit Manual,
>> and when I try to load it:

Thanks for checking in.

> Try (load "genxic.o1") or even better, (load "genxic").

Why would that work any better when the file is called "genxic.o," not
"genxic.o1?"  Does the loader know something I don't know? ;)

,----
| Gambit v4.2.8
| 
| > (current-directory "/home/joel/lisp/scm/genxic/scm")
| > (load "genxic")
| *** ERROR IN (stdin)@2.1 -- No such file or directory
| (load "genxic")
| 1> ,t
| > (load "genxic.o")
| *** ERROR IN "genxic.o"@1.5 -- Illegal character: #\x01
| 1> ,t
| > (load "genxic.o1")
| *** ERROR IN (stdin)@6.1 -- /home/joel/lisp/scm/genxic/scm/genxic.o1:
| cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (load
| "genxic.o1")
| 1> 
`----

It definitely tries to load; it appears there's something wrong with the
file.

Joel

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