[Openmcl-devel] CCL 1.8, Swank, fails to load quicklisp on OS X

[Todd Edwin King]

Thanks Zack and Gary.  The comments and information about the ASDF version selection led me to challenge my assumption about which version of ASDF was actually being loaded.

Long story short, the ASDF version didn't (necessarily) have much to do with problem.   Not having the CCL_DEFAULT_DIRECTORY set correctly did, however.

 I was sloppy in my haste to configure CCL 1.8 for slime when adding it's configuration to Emacs ...  "~/" doesn't expand in the context in which I was using it.

"it's always configuration..."

Thanks,
Todd Edwin King

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On Jun 10, 2012, at 4:45 PM, Zach Beane <xach at xach.com> wrote:

> Gary Byers <gb at clozure.com> writes:
> 
>> My understanding is that QuickLisp uses its own version of ASDF; if so and if
>> your QuickLisp installation on that machine is very old you may want to update
>> it.
> 
> For reference, Quicklisp tries to load the implementation-supplied
> version of ASDF first, with the assumption that if it's available it's
> preferable to what Quicklisp provides. It does that via (require 'asdf).
> 
> Zach