[asdf-devel] Feature Request: Better Error Reporting

[Tobias C Rittweiler]

Myself wrote:

> Grep the output for "WARNING"; on SBCL, a warning
> will result in an ASDF compilation failure.
> 
> Just by skimming through it, I saw one type mismatch warning,
> one of those annoying DEFPACKAGE warnings, and an annoying
> CFFI DEFCTYPE warning.
> 
> Your options are to change the source, or toggle the
> variable that governs ASDF compilation failure behavior. 

That said, the problem with *COMPILE-FILE-WARNING-BEHAVIOUR*
is that it's applied *after* COMPILE-FILE finished; it would
be much more intuitive if it failed right at the point
a warning is signaled. More intuitive because the message
of the warning would not be hidden somewhere in the backlog.

  -T.