[Openmcl-devel] asdf-install

[Daniel Dickison]

On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 11:14 AM, james anderson <james.anderson at setf.de> wrote:
>
> On 2009-04-23, at 16:30 , Alexander Repenning wrote:
>
> I have not been looking at ASDF for a long time. We kept using defsystem
> because, at the time, ASDF did not appear to have a way to separate source
> and binary files, i.e., it tossed them into the same folder. I remember
> reading a piece by the author indicating that he was not planning to ever
> change that. Then again, did not somebody create an extension to "fix" this
> issue?
>
> you can also accomplish this for a given system by specifying an explicit
> logical pathname and arranging that your logical host definition map the
> binaries differently than the sources.
> asdf pays only limited attention to logical pathnames, which means that the
> pathnames in restarts are wrong, but this approach suffices for a clean
> system build.
>

There's also asdf-binary-locations that lets you specify a global
directory to stick all fasls:
http://common-lisp.net/project/asdf-binary-locations/

It has worked well for me in the past.