[Asdf-devel] Request for hints debugging ASDF: SLIME-FIND-DEFINITION

[Robert P. Goldman]

Any advice about the attached would be helpful...

1. I thought I had figured out how to interactively get at the real
definitions, instead of the ones dumped into build/asdf.lisp (which I
don't want to edit -- that's like editing your binary).

I have this function:

(defun debug-asdf ()
  (dolist (c (asdf::required-components :asdf/defsystem :keep-component
                                        'asdf:cl-source-file))
    (load (asdf:component-pathname c))))

and that does seem to load everything properly.

However, use of SLIME-EDIT-DEFINITION after executing DEBUG-ASDF still
dumps me into build/asdf.lisp instead of where I want to be.


2.  SLIME-EDIT-DEFINITION on SBCL is confused by the WITH-UPGRADABILITY
macro.

Anyone know of a way to clue SLIME in to the fact that what's really
wanted is the enclosed DEFUN* form, not the WITH-UPGRADABILITY macro?

Interestingly, ACL is *not* fooled by this macro, and drops me where I
want to be (although still in asdf.lisp instead of the component file).

So this seems to be a problem with SB-INTROSPECT:FIND-DEFINITION-SOURCE,
not SLIME per se.

Cheers,
r