[asdf-devel] Re: Unable to upgrade asdf using clisp 2.49 on Mac OS X

[Faré]

On Sat, Feb 1, 2014 at 11:02 PM, Robert P. Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info> wrote:
> On Mac OS X, when I try to upgrade my ASDF using the logical pathnames
> "home:lisp;asdf;" and "home:lisp;asdf;uiop;" I get this error:
>
> *** - While searching for system "asdf": "home:lisp;asdf;uiop;"
> evaluated to "home:lisp;asdf;uiop;" which is not an absolute directory.
>
Weird. It looks like an absolute directory to me indeed.
Was it parsed properly? Did you forget to use #p"...",
or somehow got the pathname parsed
before the logical pathname was configured?

> Note that I am using ASDF:*CENTRAL-REGISTRY*, not the configuration DSL.
>
> But:
>
> Break 1 [2]> (translate-logical-pathname "home:lisp;asdf;uiop;")
> #P"/Users/rpg/lisp/asdf/uiop/"
>
>
> Is this expected behavior from clisp + ASDF?
>
> This same configuration works on ACL and SBCL, which suggests its a
> clisp issue.
>
Can you publish steps to reproduce?

This works for me on CLISP 2.49+ (2010-07-17) (built 3590935887)
(memory 3590936564), which I believe is actually a recently compiled
CLISP from hg.

(setf (logical-pathname-translations "home") '(("**;*.*"
#p"/home/tunes/**/*.*")))
(translate-logical-pathname "home:cl;asdf;uiop;")
(describe #p"home:cl;asdf;uiop;")
(push #p"home:cl;asdf;uiop;" asdf:*central-registry*)
(push #p"home:cl;asdf;" asdf:*central-registry*)
(asdf:locate-system "asdf")
(setf asdf:*resolve-symlinks* nil)
(asdf:locate-system "asdf")
(asdf:load-system "asdf")

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