:FEATURE dependency-def

[Stelian Ionescu]

> Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.net> écrivait:
> 
> > I stubbed my toe on this absent-mindedly compiling Didier's decLt
> > system on Allegro Common Lisp.  That system doesn't, and cannot,
> > function on ACL, but ASDF tells us it has compiled successfully.
> 
>   Following up to our private conversation on this...
> 
> I think there's an error on my part to begin with. The core system of
> Declt has an :if-feature :sbcl, which prevents it from being loaded
> outside SBCL. This is mostly what's needed, but I hadn't realized that
> it /silently/ does so, instead of throwing an error if the feature is
> absent.
> 
> So the question is: can I declaratively state that a system (or maybe
> more generally a component) depends on a feature, so that loading fails
> with an error otherwise ? I don't currently see a way.

#-feature
(error "FEATURE missing")

at toplevel, so you get an error on reading the .asd file.

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Stelian Ionescu a.k.a. fe[nl]ix
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