[asdf-devel] ASDF with RMCL?

[Pascal Costanza]

I guess this is going to be a nice exercise in writing portable programs... ;)

Pascal

On 21 Jan 2011, at 11:29, Pascal Costanza wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Thanks a lot to Chun Tian (binghe) and you already!!!
> 
> However, it looks like this is going to be a lot more work:
> 
> - After loading ASDF and trying to load a system, I get the following error:
> 
>> Error: File #4P"home:" does not exist.
>> While executing: TRUENAME
> 
> ...which is triggered again by the following:
> 
> 1 > (truename (user-homedir-pathname))
>> Error: File #4P"home:" does not exist.
>> While executing: TRUENAME
> 
> Translating the user-homedir-pathname in a different way yields the following:
> 
> 2 > (translate-logical-pathname (user-homedir-pathname))
> #P"Macintosh HD:Users:costanza:lisp:RMCL 5.2.1:"
> 
> This is probably because Mac OS 9 didn't know about home directories.
> 
> When I try truename before attempting to load any system, I get the following:
> 
> ? (truename (user-homedir-pathname))
> #P"Macintosh HD:Users:costanza:lisp:RMCL 5.2.1:"
> 
> 
> 
> Pascal
> 
> On 20 Jan 2011, at 20:47, Faré wrote:
> 
>> Based on the patch by Chun Tian, and tests by Robert Goldman, I
>> committed preliminary support for RMCL in ASDF 2.012.3. Things that
>> you may want to debug further:
>> 
>> 1- In lisp-version-string, the (subseq s 8) may or may not be
>> warranted anymore. Is there still a big DIGITOOL starting the
>> (lisp-implementation-version) ?
>> 
>> 2- In directory-pathname-p there looks like something funky is
>> happening with :unspecific. If some good soul can identify the issue
>> and provide a fix or workaround, that would be great.
>> 
>> [ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ]
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>> 	— Mark Twain
> 
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> Pascal Costanza, mailto:pc at p-cos.net, http://p-cos.net
> Vrije Universiteit Brussel
> Software Languages Lab
> Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium
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Pascal Costanza, mailto:pc at p-cos.net, http://p-cos.net
Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Software Languages Lab
Pleinlaan 2, B-1050 Brussel, Belgium