[babel-devel] error downloading babel

[harven at free.fr]

----- Mail original -----
De: "Stelian Ionescu" <sionescu at cddr.org>
À: harven at free.fr
Cc: babel-devel at common-lisp.net
Envoyé: Vendredi 23 Mars 2012 17:08:44
Objet: Re: [babel-devel] error downloading babel

On Fri, 2012-03-23 at 16:35 +0100, harven at free.fr wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I encounter a problem trying to download babel using quicklisp. 
> 
> I am on debian squeeze and I use the last version of sbcl 1.0.55 that I
> downloaded 5mns ago from the website, together with a fresh install of
> quicklisp. I can reproduce the error using the version of sbcl 1.0.40
> in the debian repositories. 
> 
> 
> The relevant part of the log which is attached to this message seems to be
> * (ql:quickload "babel")
> To load "babel":
>   Load 1 ASDF system:
>     babel
> ; Loading "babel"
> 
> ; file: /home/harven/.quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/babel-20120208-git/src/enc-unicode.lisp
> ; in: DEFINE-UTF-16 :UTF-16
> ;     (BABEL-ENCODINGS::DEFINE-UTF-16 :UTF-16)
> ; 
> ; caught ERROR:
> ;   (during macroexpansion of (DEFINE-UTF-16 :UTF-16))
> ;   #:~A-CODE-POINT-COUNTER fell through ETYPECASE expression.
> ;   Wanted one of (STRING SIMPLE-STRING).
[...]
> Any help ?

First update quicklisp to dist 2012-03-07, then try again

Thanks, it worked.
I thought my version of quicklisp was up to date, but apparently I was wrong.

Best wishes,
-- 
Harven