Re: [Matlisp-users] Configuration failure on Linux/SBCL

[Robert S. <rd...@me...>]

On May 26, 2004, at 12:05 AM, si...@EE... wrote:

> A while back I had tried to compile matlisp
> on linux and sbcl.  I went the defsystem way
> and had no problems.  So perhaps this is indeed something
> to look into.  I'm sure it's something simple.

Yeah, I had that working at one point too.  I think the sbcl developers 
have made their handling
logical pathnames stricter recently.  I bet you are right and it is 
some simple 1 line change somewhere.


> BTW, what is 'asdf'?

Its a competitor to defsystem.  Claimed to be more modern/extendable.  
It is used by debian to load lisp packages for different 
implementations.

I like it because it comes built in to sbcl so only "(require 
:foo-library)" is needed to load a library and because it can be taught 
to handle fortran files.

Check out:
http://www.cliki.net/asdf
http://constantly.at/lisp/asdf/

Also there is a sample (not quite ready for public consumption, got 
some hard coded paths) asdf file for matlisp at
http://mercury.chem.pitt.edu/~rds/
If you like I can clean this up some....

--Robbie


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