[Ecls-list] getting ecl to work

[Samium Gromoff]

On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 21:47:20 +0400, Samium Gromoff <_deepfire at feelingofgreen.ru> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Sep 2010 20:37:43 +0400, Samium Gromoff <_deepfire at feelingofgreen.ru> wrote:
> > > > (require 'asdf)
> > > 
> > > ;;; Loading #P"/Users/jjgarcia/lib/ecl-10.7.1/asdf.fas"
> > > ;;; Loading #P"/Users/jjgarcia/lib/ecl-10.7.1/cmp.fas"
> > > ("ASDF" "CMP")
> > > > 'asdf:load-system
> > > 
> > > ASDF:LOAD-SYSTEM
> > 
> > Obviously my issue is MinGW-specific, then.
> > 
> > Also, pardon my hasty incompetence, I now realise that NAMESTRING
> > isn't the culprit, it now appears more like LOAD doesn't perform enough
> > path frobbing to turn "d:/usr/src/ecl-bin/asdf" into
> > "d:/usr/src/ecl-bin/asdf.fas", and try that instead.. still looking at
> > it.
> 
> I figured it out, the SYS logical pathname host was pointing at the
> build directory, not at the install directory.
> 
> The fix is in my tree (with another, unrelated stray couple of patches).

Ok, my fix broke ECL-LIBRARY-DIRECTORY, which relied on the wrong value
of SYS.

Now it appears to build and load ASDF just fine.  Sorry for the noise..

-- 
regards,
  Samium Gromoff
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