[Sbcl-help] Problem with asdf-install on win32 (sbcl-0.9.18)

[VAUCHER L. <VA...@fe...>]

 Hi.

  I've just downloaded the installer for sbcl-0.9.18 on Windows, run it
and tried to play with it.

  I've done=20

* (require :asdf-install)

  which seems to work, except on random occasions when it tells me :

; compilation unit aborted
;   caught 1 fatal ERROR condition

  and then repeats the prompt line ('* \n') until I hit Ctrl-c.=20

Then I tried=20

* (asdf-install:install :cl-ppcre)

  which did not work because cliki was down or at least answering with
internal server errors (HTTP 500).

So I finally resorted to downloading cl-ppcre.tar.gz on a local disk and
do a

* (asdf-install:install "C:/tmp/download/cl-ppcre.tar.gz")

  asdf-install politely asks me where I want to install, to which I
answers politely also.
  It tells me that it is installing the package in the chosen location,
but then hangs.
  It seems that tar.exe (from my cygwin installation) is running but not
doing much (0% CPU). Maybe it's waiting from some input.

  Oh, I forgot to say that before the local file install, I tried the
HTTP install (directly from Edi Weitz's site for CL-PPCRE) and it hang
similarly, after having told me it had downloaded the file. The only
difference was that that time it was gpg that was doing nothing. My
command was:

* (asdf-install:install "http://weitz.de/files/cl-ppcre.tar.gz")


  BTW, I had to manually define the environment variable SBCL_HOME for
sbcl to find its core file. By default, it tried /usr/local/lib/sbcl,
which is not quite right.


  And thanks for this nice CL implementation and for the Windows port.


Laurent.