[asdf-devel] Is there anything one can do to make old versions of clisp run ASDF2?

[Faré]

OK, I found a system with an old debian installation with CLISP 2.44.1
and fixed it.

Also stopped exporting controversial utilities from ASDF. Sigh.

Here goes 2.126.

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On 29 August 2010 18:25, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info> wrote:
> I am getting complaints about a library that I maintain, which is loaded
> using ASDF, from CLISP users.
>
> These aren't bugs with my system, but when they try to bring up ASDF to
> load it... fail.  This has to do with this error:
>
> #<PACKAGE POSIX> has no external symbol with name "UID"
>
> I believe there is a CLISP ticket about this.
>
> The problem is that the version of CLISP distributed with Ubuntu 10.4
> and the one distributed with OpenSUSE 11.2 both are too old to have this
> fix.
>
> It seems like it would be A Good Thing if ASDF2 could be made compatible
> with Ubuntu and OpenSUSE.
>
> Is there an easy work-around for this that we could patch into the
> current version of ASDF2?
>
> Cheers,
> r
>
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