Probably your .asd or .lisp files themselves are bad. If you want help, please provide a github repository or tarball with reproducible errors. https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html
On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 11:04 PM, Greg Bennett <gwbenn...@sentex.ca> wrote: > In ./config/common-lisp/source-registry.conf.d I once created the file > gb-lisp.conf > containing the single line > (:tree "/home/gwbennett/asdf-tests") <- no trailing / > instead of (:tree "/home/gwbennett/asdf-tests/") <- trailing / This is not the central-registry (which you should NOT be using, anyway), and you do not need a trailing / when specifying a :tree as a string. > In the asdf-tests directory there is a file gb-a.asd and associated lisp > files > What does this file contain? > When I try > (asdf:load-system "gb-a") > I get (under ccl64 Version 1.11-r16812M) >> Error: Is a directory : #P"/home/gwbennett/asdf-tests" >> While executing: CCL::MAKE-FILE-STREAM, in process listener(1). >> You fail to provide enough of a backtrace to tell what's happening. > Under sbcl 1.3.18 I get an analogous message, always pointing to the same > pathname. > This suggests some pretty obvious bug in your code. > If I remove the .conf file completely, restart either lisp, retry the > load-system, the error persists. > Doesn't help. First, stop having two things to debug at once. Please make sure your configuration works with some known-working system (say alexandria). Only after you debugged your configuration should I try to debug your code. > Some how I seem to have managed to get the incorrect specification > squirreled away in asdf's memory > in a way which survives not just restarting either lisp, but restarting > linux too. > > What in the world have I managed to do ? More usefully, how do I undo it ? > What are the next winning lottery numbers? Insufficient information. —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month. — Theodore Roosevelt
