[slime-devel] swank-loader

[Helmut Eller]

Marco Baringer <mb at bese.it> writes:

> when using asdf to load swank the file swank-loader.lisp is compilied,
> however this file contains a symbol in the swank package, which is
> fine when the file is loaded but is an error when the file is compiled
> before the rest of swank has been loaded, which is what asdf tries to
> do when loading the swank system.
> 
> anyway, attached is a new swank.asd which contains all the
> dependencies in swank-loader and can be loaded from a non-emacs staret
> lisp image.

Is it possible to say that asdf shouldn't compile the loader, e.g.,
with something like (:file "swank-loader.lisp") ?  We shouldn't
duplicate all the dependencies in the asd file.

Helmut.