You mean, things like
(asdf:system-relative-pathname :xcvb "") or
(asdf:system-relative-pathname :xcvb "master.lisp") ?

Should be working well since 1.649.

It's even documented. The example with "" should be given, though.

PS: are you keeping that lock on asdf.texinfo?

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On 24 March 2010 14:28, Robert Goldman <[email protected]> wrote:
> One thing I find myself doing over and over (and I don't think I'm alone
> in this) in .asd files is to capture a pathname for the directory of the
> system definition file.  This is particularly important when one has
> code that wants to load data files, in the presence of FASL file
> relocation (since it means that source code files can't effectively use
> *load-truename*).
>
> Bits of code like this seem like a good candidate for being added to the
> ASDF API.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> R
>

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