[Ecls-list] How to get ASDF working?

[Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll]

R. Mattes wrote:

>Hello list,
>
>i just checked out CVS ecl and compiled it with
>activated  '--with-cmuformat  --with-clos-streams --with-cxx'
>configure options. The program builds fine, but how would
>i use ASDF? I loaded the asdf files manually and added my
>asdf system directory (using Debian's /usr/share/common-lisp/systems/
>directory) to the asdf:*central-registry* but when i try to load
>any system i get the following error:[...]
>
>>(asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :md5)
>>    
>>
>Filesystem error with pathname #P"/usr/share/common-lisp/systems/md5.asd".
>Either the file cannot be accessed or the pathname is not a valid one.
>Broken at PROBE-FILE.
>  
>
>Indeed PROBE-FILE fails on "/usr/share/common-lisp/systems/md5.asd" --
>can't ecl handle links?
>  
>
ECL can handle links (see below), but it will try to resolve the true 
name of the file while probing it. If the destination file does not 
exist, PROBE-FILE will fail. Are you sure also that the permisions are 
right in all directories? Could you please execute the following two 
pieces of code:

(si::file-kind "/usr/share/common-lisp/systems/md5.asd" t)
(truename "/usr/share/common-lisp/systems/md5.asd")

They should help track where the real problem is.

Juanjo

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jlr at home:~> ls -l tmp
total 0
jlr at home:~> touch tmp/faa
jlr at home:~> ln -sf tmp foo
jlr at home:~> ls -l foo/faa
-rw-r--r--    1 jlr      users           0 2004-11-17 09:41 foo/faa
jlr at home:~> ecl
ECL (Embeddable Common-Lisp) 0.9d
[...]
 > (probe-file "foo/faa")
#P"/home/jlr/tmp/faa"
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