[asdf-devel] Question about use of :unspecific

[Faré]

On 17 March 2010 05:20, james anderson <james.anderson at setf.de> wrote:
>
> On 2010-03-17, at 02:50 , Faré wrote:
>
>> ECL & LispWorks work for me,
>
> that's nice. ecl has some sort of problem with the test mechanism[0], which
> it does not have when i run the pathname tests as originally structured.
>
> in order to run lispworks in batch mode i must trash the x library and feed
> the tests through stdin. that's a problem with their free version.
>
You should ask for a test license from LispWorks,
then you can obtain the "lispworks" binary suitable for testing with, e.g.
    # echo '(hcl:save-image "lispworks" :environment nil)' > /tmp/build.lisp ;
    # ./lispworks-6-0-0-x86-linux -siteinit - -init - -build /tmp/build.lisp

> i was hoping they would release something prebuilt in order that i can avoid
> having to install the entire java dev world just in order to build abcl.
>
> their report must be missing some details: the leave-lisp operator is
> missing a clause for abcl, which prevents the tests from running. it needs
> something like
>
>  #+abcl
>  (extensions:quit :status return)
>
> before they get off the ground. in any case, the transcript[1] reads as if
> there is some problem with the test mechanics not with the test content. if
> you have any insight into that aspect of the problem, that would help.
>


>> You can either export ASDF_OUTPUT_TRANSLATIONS= something
>> or after loading asdf you can asdf:initialize-output-translations with
>> a proper SEXP.
>
> what would a proper value be? one which still can claim to test asdf's
> "normal" configuration?
>
In run-tests.sh I currently use
export ASDF_OUTPUT_TRANSLATIONS="${asdfdir}:${asdfdir}/tmp/fasls/$(basename
$command):"

The whole point of that value is to short-circuit the "normal" configuration.
But the last ":" in said variable is so you can still see said normal
configuration when you print (asdf::output-translations).

>> I'd be most happy if it [ASDF tests] converted to using Stefil or 5AM
>> or some such thing,
>> with proper asdf::*variable* rebinding and package deletion.
>> But I'm probably not going to do it myself.

>  [0] :
> http://ec2-174-129-63-37.compute-1.amazonaws.com/test/log/20100316T233422/ecl-output.txt
>  [1] :
> http://ec2-174-129-63-37.compute-1.amazonaws.com/test/log/20100316T233422/abcl-output.txt


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