ASDF upgrade script fails on cmucl/Linux

[Faré]

I believe this is an issue with ASDF upgrade not working on CMUCL due
to CLOS issues.

The workaround is to use the install-asdf.lisp script to overwrite
CMUCL's builtin ASDF with a newer one. — Although I'm not sure whether
the script will work if ASDF can't upgrade itself.

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On Tue, Feb 12, 2019 at 3:51 PM Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info> wrote:
>
> I'm getting a failure of the ASDF upgrade tests on CMUCL since the UIOP dependencies mod:
>
> Upgrading ASDF from version 3.1.7 to version 3.3.2.13
>
> TEST ABORTED: Error while trying to load definition for system test-asdf from pathname /var/lib/jenkins/workspace/asdf-upgrade/test/test-asdf.asd: don't recognize component type :MODULE
>
> This looks like the key bit of the backtrace:
>
> 10: (ERROR
>      ASDF/FIND-SYSTEM:LOAD-SYSTEM-DEFINITION-ERROR
>      :NAME "test-asdf"
>      :PATHNAME #P"/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/asdf-upgrade/test/test-asdf.asd"
>      :CONDITION #<ASDF/SESSION:FORMATTED-SYSTEM-DEFINITION-ERROR {5A92F6A5}>)
> 11: ("LAMBDA (.PV-CELL. .NEXT-METHOD-CALL. O S)"
>      #<ASDF/SESSION:FORMATTED-SYSTEM-DEFINITION-ERROR {5A92F6A5}>)
> 12: (SIGNAL #<ASDF/SESSION:FORMATTED-SYSTEM-DEFINITION-ERROR {5A92F6A5}>)
> 13: (ERROR
>      ASDF/SESSION:FORMATTED-SYSTEM-DEFINITION-ERROR
>      :FORMAT-CONTROL "don't recognize component type ~S"
>      :FORMAT-ARGUMENTS (:MODULE))
> 14: (ASDF/SESSION:SYSDEF-ERROR "don't recognize component type ~S" :MODULE)[:OPTIONAL]
> 15: (ASDF/PARSE-DEFSYSTEM:PARSE-COMPONENT-FORM
>      NIL
>      (:MODULE "test-asdf" :PATHNAME NIL)
>      :PREVIOUS-SERIAL-COMPONENT NIL)[:OPTIONAL]
> 16: (LISP::SLOLOAD
>      #<Stream for file "/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/asdf-upgrade/test/test-asdf.asd">)
> 17: (LISP::INTERNAL-LOAD
>      #P"/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/asdf-upgrade/test/test-asdf.asd"
>      #P"/var/lib/jenkins/workspace/asdf-upgrade/test/test-asdf.asd"
>      :ERROR :SOURCE
>      :UTF-8)
>
> TBH, I'm inclined to regard 3.1.7 as so old that I don't have to think about it, but I'm open to contradiction. If I don't hear any, I'll prune that from the set of origin versions to test for upgrades, and move on.
>
> Best,
>
> R