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

[Robert P. Goldman]

Faré 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...
>>
> I suppose sysdef-central-registry-search and/or probe-asd could ensure
> that defaults is parsed as a pathname, using (pathname ...) or some
> invocation of (ensure-pathname ...). I leave that to you.
> 
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> 

This is only fixable going forward, right?  Because it's a bug that
affects the upgrade....

I guess this means that clisp is more fussy about accepting a pathname,
rather than a pathname-designator in some circumstances.

cheers,
r