With: CMU Common Lisp rmb-cmucl-19b-2005-06 (19B), running on phoenix Dumped on: Tue, 2005-06-21 13:12:23-07:00 on phoenix Loaded subsystems: Python 1.1, target Intel x86 CLOS based on Gerd's PCL 2004/04/14 03:32:47 CLX X Library MIT R5.02 Motif toolkit and graphical debugger 1.0 Hemlock 3.5 Simple Streams
CL-USER> (directory (make-pathname :directory '(:absolute "home" "fred" ".lisp" :wild-inferiors) :type "asd")) (#P"/home/fred/.lisp/subdir/test2.asd" #P"/home/fred/.lisp/testing.asd") CL-USER> (ext:search-list "home:") (#P"/home/fred/") But I do not see how to insert the home: search list into the directory function in order to have a general search of an individual linux users ASDF files in a global cmucl-init file. -- In Common Lisp quite a few aspects of pathname semantics are left to the implementation.