[Bese-devel] Re: some problems getting FiveAM to load...

[Marco Baringer]

Gary King wrote:
> I was trying to look at FiveAM yesterday and didn't have much luck. The
> stable version was a 404 and the development version wouldn't load on
> any of the four lisps I tried. Here are some of the details:

you decided to check out fiveam just minutes after i broke it :(

> Allegro 7.0

this is due to a badly implemented change i made to the signals macro.
Grab the 'Fix api-breakage in SIGNALS' patch from the darcs repo.

> SBCL

odd. Using SBCL 0.9.6.37 (and the recently fixed fiveam code) i was able
to load fiveam and the test suite ran successfully.

> OpenMCL:

as with allegro this is due to a mistake on my part. the latest code
should fix it.

> MCL
> [snip]
> (this is due to the with-run-state macro being undefined ... I could not
> find this macro in the sources).

the with-run-state macro is defined by the call to
def-special-environment in fiveam/src/check.lisp. i'm somewhat at a lost
as to what's going on. is asdf trying to compile the code before loading
the check.lisp file?

> This check out was done yesterday.
> 
> Advice? Help? Thanks!

thanks for the comprehensive reporting! if the latest fiveam code works
for you i'll make a tarball and release it as fiveam 2.0.

-- 
-Marco
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