> I use a vanilla Quicklisp installation. For some local directory > trees I configure ASDF to prefer those trees over the standard > Quicklisp versions by placing text like the following in my > $HOME/.config/common-lisp/source-registry.conf file: > > (:source-registry > (:tree "/home/brown/toe/open-source/") > ;; For swank.asd > (:tree "/home/brown/local/software/source/slime/") > :inherit-configuration)
+1 for this as the simplest path to the desired outcome. > ./configure > make > sudo make install > > and it works! I can put the clone anywhere I want. I can change it > anyway I want. The system doesn't fight me. that system is a struggle in so many other ways (dll hell; all the /usr/include stuff; etc...). and from all the various linux distros, precious few can achieve the equivalent of the CL ecosystem WRT reproducibility and fine-grained control over the versions of the dependencies (NixOS and Guix are the ones i'm aware of). the seeming simplicity of that ./configure dance has an enormous cost that only shows up when it doesn't work in apparent or in covertly surprising ways. -- • attila lendvai • PGP: 963F 5D5F 45C7 DFCD 0A39 -- “In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral.” — Confucius (551–479 BC)
