Forgive me if you've heard me rant about this before, but there is a mutual 
incompatibility between CLX, trivial-features (which, for me at least, gets 
pulled in whenever I try to use CFFI) and SBCL. The problem is that 
trivial-features puts :little-endian on *features* and CLX has the following 
code in defdeps.lisp:

#+(or lispm vax little-endian Minima)
(eval-when (eval compile load)
  (pushnew :clx-little-endian *features*))

These old-style eval-when conditions cause SBCL to issue a warning, which 
causes ASDF to stop compiling CLX. There are many workarounds to this, such as 
loading CLX before CFFI and there are many possible fixes (such as making SBCL 
less pedantic or making ASDF not stop on warnings of this kind, etc...) But it 
seems to me that either fixing the CLX source code such that it is more 
tolerant of SBCL's pedantry or, alternatively, picking less common names for 
the *features* in trivial-features would be a good thing. I don't really have a 
preference, but it would be nice if the CLX and trivial-features maintainers 
would play nice with each other such that, at least when using SBCL, one can 
load trivial-features and then CFFI.

I'm certainly open to other suggestions, but I've grown tired of working around 
this particular problem.

thanks,

Cyrus


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