[asdf-install-devel] unable to find installed package

[Gary King]

Hi Hugh,

You're right that the installer should take care of this. This is the  
variable that ASDF-Install uses to figure out how to do this:

(defvar *system-file-installer*
   'maybe-symlink-sysfile
   "A funcallable object that will install a system file so that it
   can be found by its defsystem. This function is not
   defsystem-specific. It will receive two arguments; a pathname
   designating a directory where the system file should be registered,
   and a pathname designating a system file to be registered. The
   return value is ignored. The default value is a function that
   creates a symbolic link on UNIX-like systems, and does nothing on
   Windows.")

As you can see, it doesn't do anything on windows. There are certainly  
ways that this could be improved but it's not clear when the time will  
be produced to do so. Sorry.




On Feb 24, 2009, at 8:34 PM, Hugh Myers wrote:

> I'm running asdf-install with CLisp and Cygwin. Pretty much a happy  
> camper except for one niggle. After installing a package, say cl- 
> ppcre I am unable to execute a (asdf:operate 'asdf:load-op :cl- 
> ppcre) until I add a sym-link from the 'registry' directory to the  
> (in my case) /usr/local/asdf-install/site-systems/cl-ppcre.asd file  
> (I suppose the link is from the file to the directory, but you know  
> what I mean). After that it works fine. Seems like this is something  
> the install procedure should do? I notice though that even with the  
> sym-link, placing such a command in .clisprc doesn't do anything,  
> seemingly ignored. I know more ways to screw up a simple set of  
> instructions than most would believe possible so I'm assuming that  
> I've taken a wrong turn somewhere along the way. Guidance from  
> anyone would be most helpful...
>
> --hsm
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