maintaining non-Lisp systems with ASDF

[Robert P. Goldman]

That's what :defsystem-depends-on is for.

Please let me know if you don't find it adequately documented in the manual...

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> On Sep 24, 2015, at 19:41, Robert Dodier <robert.dodier at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, Sep 23, 2015 at 2:39 PM, Faré <fahree at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> What you really need to do is:
> 
> Thanks, I will take a look at that. It is working well enough for the
> moment, but I will circle back later to polish it up.
> 
> I have a question now about how to ensure that the :maxima-file
> component type is defined before it is used. Let's say I have foo.asd
> which has :maxima-file components. Ideally I would like to simply say
> (asdf:load-system :foo) without having to load the maxima-file
> definition before. It occurred to me to put (defsystem foo :depends-on
> ("maxima-file") ...) and move the :maxima-file stuff into another
> system. But that doesn't work, of course, because :maxima-file is not
> yet defined before the :foo system is parsed, and I get an error about
> :maxima-file being unrecognized.
> 
> I can put (load-system :maxima-file) before (defsystem foo ...) and
> then it works OK. I'm happy that it works, but it seems a little messy
> to me -- there are now two kinds of dependencies, one kind that has to
> be loaded before the defsystem, and the other after ...
> 
> It's not a big deal, but can anyone think of a way to move the
> maxima-file dependency back into the :depends-on list?
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Robert Dodier
>