ASDF 3.1.5 test suite issues on ACL (8.2 and 10.0 GM)

[Kevin Layer]

Faré wrote:

>> >>> On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 11:15 AM, Faré <fahree at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >>> > On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Kevin Layer <layer at franz.com> wrote:
>> >>> >>>> I suspect any problem Kevin had were related to Allegro somehow having
>> >>> >>>> (user-homedir-pathname) incorrectly returning NIL in their test
>> >>> >>>> configuration.
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> It's definitely not that:
>> >>> >>
>> >>> >> ;; Current reader case mode: :case-sensitive-lower
>> >>> >> cl-user(1): (user-homedir-pathname)
>> >>> >> #P"C:\\Users\\layer\\"
>> >>> >> cl-user(2):
>> >>> >>
>> >>> > OK. Do you have anything else in your environment that would interfere?
>> >>> >   env | grep -i 'appdata|xdg_'
>> >>> >
>> >>> > Can you (trace uiop:xdg-cache-home uiop:xdg-data-home uiop:getenv
>> >>> > uiop:resolve-location uiop:resolve-absolute-location
>> >>> > uiop:resolve-relative-location) in between loading asdf and using it
>> >>> > (with e.g. (asdf:make "asdf")) to narrow down what in
>> >>> > uiop/configuration.lisp is going awry for your cache configuration?
>> >>> >
>> >>> Actually, since the user-cache is computed while asdf is loading, this
>> >>> won't suffice.
>> >>> Can you do the following:
>> >>>
>> >>> (load "build/asdf.lisp")
>> >>> (trace uiop:xdg-cache-home uiop:xdg-data-home uiop:getenv
>> >>> uiop:resolve-location uiop:resolve-absolute-location
>> >>> uiop:resolve-relative-location)
>> >>> (format t "*UC*: ~S~%(CUC): ~S~%" uiop:*user-cache*
>> >>> (uiop/configuration::compute-user-cache))
>> >
>> > I assume this is moot, given my last email.
>> >
>> No, it's essential — please try it.

This whole branch of that conversation was about an error I got while
compiling 3.1.5 asdf.lisp on Windows.  I no longer get that error.

So, if you still want me to do the above tracing, what do I do it
before?

>> As for your previous email, the catch was that the target called
>> "test-scripts" in the minimakefile branch is still confusingly called
>> "test-lisp" in the master branch (I'd fix that, but need to talk to
>> Robert about it).