Hi Robert, > This one was my fault. I did the PR with this patch, because cl-libuv > wouldn't build on my Mac. Since there's no testing, apparently, it > slipped through. > > I don't know how to fix this, because I have never used CFFI-grovel, so > no idea how to put Madhu's advice into practice. > > As an aside, doesn't this kind of break Faré's design principle that > the person who has the information is the one who should be configuring > the software? It seems like we are expecting the programmer to guess > ahead of time what are all of the possible locations for the foreign > library and includes. Wouldn't it make more sense for this to be > configurable?
Yes, but there's no way to currently configure this except as you point out below. > Of course, this is partly my fault, since ASDF does not support > configuring operations, except with gross dynamic variables. Adding a configuration stage for a DEFSYSTEM would be my most desired feature at the moment. -- Stelian Ionescu