Thanks. Indeed, it does not find the system:

$ java -jar dist/abcl.jar
Armed Bear Common Lisp 1.6.0-dev
Java 1.8.0_171 Oracle Corporation
Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM
Low-level initialization completed in 0.273 seconds.
Startup completed in 1.399 seconds.
Loading /home/alessio/.abclrc completed in 8.881 seconds.
Type ":help" for a list of available commands.
CL-USER(1): (asdf:find-system :abcl)
#<THREAD "interpreter" {3DF12085}>: Debugger invoked on condition of type MISSING-COMPONENT
  Component "abcl" not found
Restarts:
  0: RETRY                         Retry ASDF operation.
  1: CLEAR-CONFIGURATION-AND-RETRY Retry ASDF operation after resetting the configuration.
  2: TOP-LEVEL                     Return to top level.
[1] CL-USER(2): asdf:*central-registry*
(#P"/home/alessio/quicklisp/quicklisp/")
[1] CL-USER(3): (push #P"." asdf:*central-registry*)
(#P"./" #P"/home/alessio/quicklisp/quicklisp/")
[1] CL-USER(4): 0
#<:ASDF/SYSTEM:SYSTEM "abcl">

Is this a bad interaction with Quicklisp? This is my .abclrc:

;;; The following lines added by ql:add-to-init-file:
#-quicklisp
(let ((quicklisp-init (merge-pathnames "quicklisp/setup.lisp" (user-homedir-pathname))))
  (when (probe-file quicklisp-init)
    (load quicklisp-init)))

Thanks,

Alessio

On Sat, 1 Jun 2019 at 02:12, Mark Evenson <evenson@panix.com> wrote:

> On May 27, 2019, at 20:07, Alessio Stalla <alessiostalla@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Greetings,
>
> I have trouble running ABCL's Lisp test suites:
>
> $ ant abcl.test
> ...lots of output...
>      [java] Caught :ASDF/FIND-COMPONENT:MISSING-DEPENDENCY while processing --eval option "(asdf:test-system :abcl/test/ansi/compiled)":
>      [java]   #<MISSING-DEPENDENCY {1337E679}>
>      [java] Java Result: 2
> ...etc...
>
> Do you have any idea?

What does (asdf:find-system :abcl) return? 

You need to have the [ANSI-TEST repository cloned locally][ansi-test] as a sibling of where “abcl.asd” is located.  This is noted in the [comments within “abcl.asd”][1], and we could certainly profit for a better message in the signaled condition.

TODO automate this as part of the things [ABCL-BUILD][abcl-build] can install locally for the user.

[ansi-test]: https://gitlab.common-lisp.net/ansi-test/ansi-test.git
[1]: https://abcl.org/trac/browser/trunk/abcl/abcl.asd#L86
[abcl-build]: https://abcl.org/trac/browser/trunk/abcl/contrib/abcl-build/build

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