Re: [Sbcl-help] Accessing path to directory where extensions are installed, and finding such builtin variables generally

[Marcin T. <mm...@ze...>]

Thanks, I'll try that. I still want to know if anyone knows if there's a
good reference for what the builtin variables for things like this is, or if
I should grovel the code/process the docstrings in the packages in some way.

On 2/14/07, Gary King <gw...@me...> wrote:
>
> OK. I think that the answer is still asdf:*central-registry*. For example,
> mine is:
>
> ("user-home:darcs;asdf-systems;" "/repository/darcs/asdf-systems/"
> "/Users/gwking/.asdf-install-dir/systems/"
> (MERGE-PATHNAMES ".sbcl/systems/" (USER-HOMEDIR-PATHNAME))
> (LET ((ASDF::HOME (POSIX-GETENV "SBCL_HOME")))
>    (WHEN ASDF::HOME (MERGE-PATHNAMES "site-systems/" (TRUENAME
> ASDF::HOME))))
> *DEFAULT-PATHNAME-DEFAULTS*)
>
>
> (the contents of the list are evaluated when asdf searches for systems
> which is why some of the items are code that will evaluated into a pathname
> and not pathnames themselves.)
>
> HTH,
>
> On Feb 14, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Marcin Tustin wrote:
>
>
>
> On 2/14/07, Gary King <gw...@me...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Marcin,
> > I've not looked at BKNR for a while but when it did, it used ASDF for
> > installation. If this is still the case, then you'll want to include the
> > paths to the BKNR asd files (the system definitions) in the variable
> > asdf:*central-registry*.
> >
> > I hope this helps; if not, I'm probably misunderstanding the question so
> > please ask again!
> >
>
> My question isn't really a  BKNR one - I just mentioned that for context.
> I want to know if there is a way to programmatically discover where SBCL
> keeps contrib code. I want to use this in config files which need to be
> configured with install paths.
>
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