[asdf-devel] Re: Unable to upgrade asdf using clisp 2.49 on Mac OS X

[Robert P. Goldman]

> On Feb 1, 2014, at 22:25, Faré <fare at tunes.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 11:02 PM, Robert P. Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info> wrote:
>> On Mac OS X, when I try to upgrade my ASDF using the logical pathnames
>> "home:lisp;asdf;" and "home:lisp;asdf;uiop;" I get this error:
>> 
>> *** - While searching for system "asdf": "home:lisp;asdf;uiop;"
>> evaluated to "home:lisp;asdf;uiop;" which is not an absolute directory.
> Weird. It looks like an absolute directory to me indeed.
> Was it parsed properly? Did you forget to use #p"...",

I didn't use #p when setting ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*, but I don't use it on SBCL or ACL, either. The central registry has always accepted namestrings for me, with this one exception...

Cheers,
R