[Ecls-list] Compiling packages via Quicklisp and Windows drive letters

[Zach Beane]

Márcio Faustino <marciombfaustino at gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> Whenever I install a package via Quicklisp, "xmls" for example, when it is compiled the object files (*.fas, *.obj) are placed at:
> C:\Users\marcio\AppData\Roaming\common-lisp\cache\ecl-11.1.1-win-x86\C\Users\marcio\quicklisp\dists\quicklisp\software\s-xml-20101006-http\src
>
> It seems there's a problem there, because the drive letter is used as if it was a directory. For that same package the source files are located at:
> C:\Users\marcio\quicklisp\dists\quicklisp\software\s-xml-20101006-http\src
>
> Is this an issue with ECL or Quicklisp? I'm using ECL 11.1.1, with Visual Studio 2005, on Windows 7 64-bit.

ASDF2 introduced a system of separating FASL files from source files.
It's similar similar to the older asdf-binary-locations library. ASDF2
constructs the fasl pathname by translating the source pathname in a
particular way.

It's described in section 3.3 of the ASDF manual - see
http://common-lisp.net/project/asdf/asdf.html for details.

If you don't want the feature, you can turn it off with
(asdf:disable-output-translations).

Zach