[Ecls-list] Re: How to get ASDF working?

[R. Mattes]

On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 09:50:03 +0100, Juan Jose Garcia Ripoll wrote:

> R. Mattes wrote:
> 
>> [quoted text muted]
> 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")

Ok, here it comes, first the file layout:

 ralf at hobbes:/etc$ ls -la /usr/share/common-lisp/source/md5/md5.asd 
 -rw-r--r--    1 root     root          941 Sep  7  2003
 /usr/share/common-lisp/source/md5/md5.asd
 
 ralrwxr-xr-x    1 root     root           21 Jun 15 19:44
 /usr/share/common-lisp/systems/md5.asd -> ../source/md5/md5.asdlf

and how ecl sees it: 
 
 ralf at hobbes:/etc$ rlwrap ecl
 ECL (Embeddable Common-Lisp) 0.9d
 Copyright (C) 1984 Taiichi Yuasa and Masami Hagiya Copyright (C) 1993
 Giuseppe Attardi
 Copyright (C) 2000 Juan J. Garcia-Ripoll
        ECL is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
 under certain conditions; see file 'Copyright' for details. Type :h for
 Help.  Top level.
 > (si::file-kind "/usr/share/common-lisp/systems/md5.asd" t)
 :FILE
 Top level.
 >  (truename "/usr/share/common-lisp/systems/md5.asd")
 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 TRUENAME.
 >> :pop
 Top level.

Now let's try the destination of the link:

 > (truename "/usr/share/common-lisp/source/md5/md5.asd")
 #P"/usr/share/common-lisp/source/md5/md5.asd"
 Top level.
 > 

So ecl sees the file but can't follow the link.

 Cheers
 Ralf Mattes
 
> They should help track where the real problem is.
> 
> Juanjo
> 
> -----------
> 
> 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"
> Top level.
> 
> 
> 
> -------------------------------------------------------
> This SF.Net email is sponsored by: InterSystems CACHE
> FREE OODBMS DOWNLOAD - A multidimensional database that combines
> robust object and relational technologies, making it a perfect match
> for Java, C++,COM, XML, ODBC and JDBC. www.intersystems.com/match8