Quicklisp CFFI doesn't load on Raspberry PI

[Stelian Ionescu]

> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 9:51 PM, Stelian Ionescu <sionescu at cddr.org> wrote:
> > We really really are at the point where we need to have a
> > configure-style script run before anything and detect CPU/OS features.
> 
> What's your proposal in this case? Try and compile a single program
> that prints FFI_UNIX64 and if it fails to compile assume the constant
> is not defined? Is that how configure does it? Did you mean something
> else?

Yes, that's how autotools deals with that case: each test gets generated
to a separate file and then compiled. That's the reason why people find
autoconf-generated configure scripts to be slow: they invoke the compiler
for almost every single test, but it's also what makes it robust.

-- 
Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix
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