<div dir="ltr"><div>I committed more or less the change Dave suggested.</div><div><br></div>You are in a maze of subtly incompatible implementation buglets, all different.<div><br></div><div>All that because the standard tried to compromise between incompatible implementations, instead of (1) mandating some standardized 1-1 access to the underlying OS, and (2) standardizing on constructions on top of that or parametric abstractions from that. So instead of having well-defined tools (that may not be a complete solution indeed), we have horribly undefined tools (that still may not be a complete solution, and now actually cannot be).</div>
<div><br></div><div class="gmail_extra">And so, instead of having two standard APIs, one for Windows and one for Unix, on top of which to build robust things, we have thirty-odd different APIs, all of them incompatible,</div>
<div class="gmail_extra">none of them reasonably standard.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>—♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• <a href="http://fare.tunes.org" target="_blank">http://fare.tunes.org</a><br>
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<div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 6:24 PM, Dave Cooper <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.cooper@genworks.com" target="_blank">david.cooper@genworks.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr"><br><div>In asdf-pathname-test.script, in function test-file, L126, changing:</div><div><br></div><div> :rename-and-delete</div><div><br></div><div>to:</div><div><br></div><div> #+(and sbcl os-windows) :rename-and-delete</div>
<div> #-(and sbcl os-windows) :supsersede</div><div><br></div><div>seems to resolve the issue. This :supersede was changed to :rename-and-delete last night in order to make SBCL/Windows work. Originally this was :supersede. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I don't know if this is a real solution or if we should look for a deeper fix which allows leaving it unconditionally as :rename-and-delete.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 5:58 PM, Dave Cooper <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:david.cooper@genworks.com" target="_blank">david.cooper@genworks.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>I can replicate this on Linux as well, with both mlisp and alisp. </div>
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</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Robert P. Goldman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rpgoldman@sift.info" target="_blank">rpgoldman@sift.info</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">I pulled an update this afternoon, and now on ACL 9.0 on Mac OS X I get<br>
a failure on asdf-pathname-test.script<br>
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I get an error as follows:<br>
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Above backtrace due to this condition:<br>
attempt to take the length of a non-sequence: :UNSPECIFIC<br>
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I get an enormous backtrace, but this is I think the direct call that<br>
gets an error:<br>
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(LET<br>
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((STREAM<br>
(OPEN<br>
. #16=((ASDF/COMPONENT:COMPONENT-PATHNAME<br>
ASDF-PATHNAME-TEST::FILE)<br>
:DIRECTION<br>
:OUTPUT<br>
:IF-EXISTS<br>
:RENAME-AND-DELETE<br>
:IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST<br>
:ERROR)))<br>
(#12=#:WITH-OPEN-FILE-ABORT-398 . #61=(T)))<br>
(UNWIND-PROTECT<br>
(MULTIPLE-VALUE-PROG1<br>
(PROGN . #17=((PRINT ASDF-PATHNAME-TEST::START-TIME STREAM) T))<br>
(SETQ #12# . #58=(NIL)))<br>
(WHEN (STREAMP STREAM) (CLOSE STREAM :ABORT #12#))))<br>
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More as I find out more.<br>
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Best,<br>
r<br>
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