[mcclim-devel] Problem with McCLIM

[Christophe Rhodes]

Fred Gilham <gilham at csl.sri.com> writes:

> Using a freshly updated version of McCLIM under CMUCL 19C and FreeBSD I
> get the following:
>
> * (require :clim-examples)
> Warning:  Silly argument for a unix PATHNAME-NAME: "Goatee/presentation-history"
> Warning:  Silly argument for a unix PATHNAME-NAME: "Goatee/presentation-history"
> Warning:  Silly argument for a unix PATHNAME-NAME: "Looks/pixie"
> Warning:  Silly argument for a unix PATHNAME-NAME: "Looks/pixie"
> Warning:  Silly argument for a unix PATHNAME-NAME: "Goatee/presentation-history"
> Warning:  Silly argument for a unix PATHNAME-NAME: "Looks/pixie"

These are fixed in a newer version of asdf, but are harmless in any case.

> * (clim-demo::demodemo)
>
> (now I click on the "Address Book" button)
>
> Error in function KERNEL:CLASS-TYPEP:
>    Class is currently invalid: #<KERNEL::STANDARD-CLASS
>                                  CLIM-INTERNALS::BASIC-OUTPUT-RECORD {29269CB5}>
>    [Condition of type SIMPLE-ERROR]

Unless you have reason to believe otherwise, I think this is a bug in
CMUCL.  (It's possible to work around bugs in CMUCL, of course, but it
would be much better for all concerned to fix the actual bug.)

Cheers,

Christophe