Problem with ACL on windows & proposed fix

[Robert P. Goldman]

Ok. Maybe we'll have to issue a 3.1.5 and then follow it almost immediately with a 3.1.6 that will have better Windows support. THEN we can finally move forward again. 
Best,
R

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> On Jun 27, 2015, at 23:40, Faré <fare at tunes.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.net> wrote:
>> Sorry -- I've been traveling, so sat on this bug report for a while.
>> Here's a test failure from Windows ACL.  Looks like ACL is somehow not
>> running the windows CWD program helper (which should invoke CMD.EXE),
>> but instead is just taking the command and treating it as its own output.
> Indeed, %run-program has these lines:
>       ;; NB: We do NOT add cmd /c here. You might want to.
>       #+(or allegro clisp) command
> 
> Retrospectively, that's probably a mistake.
> 
>> which suggests we should modify %NORMALIZE-COMMAND for Allegro to
>> prepend "CMD /C " to all commands when on windows.
> Yup.
> 
>> I'll test this myself the next time I get into the office, but that
>> might not be till Monday afternoon.  Or I might get lucky and find that
>> I can remotely access my windows VM....
> I'll be back from camping this Sunday night. Hopefully next weekend I
> have time to try.
> 
> The situation is becoming pressing: the latest sbcl has made it to
> debian testing, and is incompatible with the asdf 3.1.4 that is
> currently available there. We really ought to issue a new asdf ASAP.
> 
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