Faré wrote: >> > That said, I regret that we have accidentally broke innocent uses of >> > *load-truename*. >> > >> > But maybe I can make a FAQ entry for this case. >> > >> There is nothing innocent about assuming that compiled file are close >> to the source files, or that the source files are available at >> runtime, what more at the same location as at compile-time. Unless may >> if you're using Nix.
I've avoided getting into this discussion, but I feel I need to ask: why use *load-truename* instead of *load-pathname*? *load-truename* goes through symbolic links (even though the ANS says nothing about it, this is the behavior of implementations I know of) and that is almost always the wrong thing. GNU make doesn't do it, I don't see why ASDF should do it. A build system should never itself follow symlinks, because it defeats systems that have been in place for 30+ years: linked directories of binary files linking to a single source directory. Kevin
