[Openmcl-devel] Clozure CL Foreign variable “O_NONBLOCK” not found

[Zach Beane]

Gary Byers <gb at clozure.com> writes:

> If you use Quicklisp to load some code that tries to lookup that constant's value
> in (missing) database files, you don't see that warning.
>
> On the other hand, you do see dot characters printed when using
> Quicklisp.  (Sometimes lots of them !)
>
> I don't claim to be part of Quicklisp's target audience, but I had a vote
> I think I'd vote for being able to see progress messages and diagnostics
> (even if that meant seeing fewer dots and even - especially - if the diagnostics
> indicate an installation problem, as they seem to in this case.)

To see the progress messages, diagnostics, and warnings, use :verbose t
as extra arguments to ql:quickload.

Zach