[asdf-devel] Alternate default lisp system location

[Zach Beane]

Faré <fahree at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 6:07 PM, Pascal Costanza <pc at p-cos.net> wrote:
>> Can I set CL_SOURCE_REGISTRY to a value that deactivates all "default" paths? Then I don't care what the default is...
>>
> Yes, the example I gave you did that:
>
> export CL_SOURCE_REGISTRY=~/lisp//
>
> As you can see with (asdf::parse-source-registry-string
> "/home/tunes/lisp//"), it expands to:
> (:SOURCE-REGISTRY (:TREE "/home/tunes/lisp")
>  (:IGNORE-INHERITED-CONFIGURATION))
>
> The double-slash "//" is significative: it means recurse through the directory.
>
> Those readers who do want to inherit the configuration should just add
> a colon ":" at the end
> — or a semi-colon, if using Windows:
> export CL_SOURCE_REGISTRY=~/lisp//:
>
> Alternatively, you can put this in your
> ~/.config/common-lisp/source-registry.conf:
> (:source-registry (:tree (:home "lisp")) :ignore-inherited-configuration)

Instructions like these are one of the reasons I have been unable to
make or recommend regular use of the source registry configuration
system.

Zach