Re: ASDF vs. logical pathnames in CMUCL

Raymond Toy <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.cmucl.general,gmane.lisp.cclan.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> "Christopher" == Christopher C Stacy <[email protected]> writes:

    Christopher> In CMUCL 18e, ASDF 1.84:
    Christopher> ASDF is not working for me at all, apparently because 
    Christopher> I am defining my logical pathnames wrong.

Pathnames make my head hurt.  Add case, and I get a migraine.

    Christopher> Here's a simple example:

    Christopher> (setf (logical-pathname-translations "x") 
    Christopher>       `(("asdf;**;*.*.*"   "/home/cstacy/S/L/asdf/**/")
    Christopher>         ("uffi;**;*.*.*"   "/home/cstacy/L/uffi-1.4.12/**/")))

    Christopher> But that didn't help me at all.  I suppose it had no effect because
    Christopher> ASDF:SYSDEF-CENTRAL-REGISTRY-SEARCH makes the actual pathname like:

    Christopher>  (MAKE-PATHNAME :DEFAULTS DEFAULTS :VERSION :NEWEST
    Christopher>                  :NAME NAME :TYPE "asd" :CASE :LOCAL)

What are the values of default and name here?

I'm trying to reproduce the problem, without having asdf.

Ray
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