Re: SCM systems and pathnames question

This is great, thank you so much!   Exactly what I needed.

I usually do not use DSPECS because I work mostly on portable code, but in
this case this is what I will use.

Marco


On Mon, May 18, 2026 at 3:48 PM Tim Bradshaw <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 17 May 2026, at 22:27, Marco Antoniotti (as marco dot antoniotti at
> unimib dot it) <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi
> >
> > Apologies if this is a very stupod question.
> >
> > Is there a way to get the actual pathname a SCM-SCM-SYSTEM was defined
> in?
>
> I don't know if you can rely on this, but system names are dspecs, so you
> can use dspec-definition-locations to find them:
>
> > (dspec:dspec-definition-locations '(defsystem "FOO"))
> (((defsystem "FOO") #P"/private/tmp/x.lisp") ((defsystem "FOO") :listener))
>
> (Yes, I defined it once in the listner before realising that was not the
> thing to do>)



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