Thanks for the info. But Ceramic just built on the same windows laptop under ccl64. Maybe the asdf AllegroCL provides is getting in the way? I will look also at tossing cffi just to get a fresh start.
-kt On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Faré <fah...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Error: OPERATION instances must only be created through MAKE-OPERATION. > >> > >> [condition type: FORMATTED-SYSTEM-DEFINITION-ERROR] > > > > > > Is that an ASDF issue? Ceramic? ACL? cffi-grovel (the system being built > > when the error is thrown)? > > > You need a fresher version of cffi-grovel. Update your quicklisp > and/or make sure you don't have an antique version of cffi in your > local-projects and/or source-registry. > > > Does quicklisp use its own copy of ASDF for stability? > > > quicklisp provides an antique asdf 2.26 that is only loaded in even > more antique implementations. All maintained implementations have been > providing asdf 3.1 or later for over a year. > > —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• > http://fare.tunes.org > C is a DSL for turning low-level byte arrays into security advisories. > > -- Kenneth Tilton http://tiltontec.com/