[asdf-install-devel] Some files not loaded

Gary King gwking at metabang.com
Tue Jul 8 21:04:19 UTC 2008


Hi Scott,

You're right that is a very basic failure. Asdf-install is designed to  
be loaded using asdf and I think that load file is has suffered bit  
rot. I'll look later today or tomorrow and clean it up. Thanks much  
for pointing out the problem.

Sent from my iPhone

On Jul 8, 2008, at 3:29 PM, "Scott L. Burson" <Scott at sympoiesis.com>  
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just tried to install the latest release (downloaded from http://common-lisp.net/project/asdf-install/asdf-install_latest.tar.gz 
> , i.e., the link "gzipped tar file" on the home page) on Allegro  
> 8.1.  I ran into what seems a rather basic problem: `cl-user::load- 
> asdf-install' doesn't load `variables.lisp', so when I try calling  
> `asdf-install:install', I get an unbound variable error on  
> `*preferred-location*'.
>
> Loading the file manually gets me a little further, but then I get  
> another error because `conditions.lisp' hasn't been loaded either  
> (well, it's really trying to tell me that I don't have the GPG key,  
> but the condition isn't defined).
>
> Loading that file also lets me win.
>
> -- Scott
>
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