Thank you all very much!  It seems to me that changing QuickLisp to default to the current directory first would solve all of the problems.  This way one can change to the application directory and all will load correctly without any configuration.

Until that change is made, I will use one of the suggestions kindly made.

Thank you all!

Blake McBride

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On Sunday, September 24th, 2023 at 7:31 AM, Wilfredo Velazquez <zulu.inuoe@gmail.com> wrote:

Right yeah, or you can use clpm and specifically target the versions of the thing you use. Alternatively you can vendor (copy/paste them in your repo).

In CL you fo deal with per-platform thing, but generally it is isolated to some OS layer and move on

On Sun, Sep 24, 2023 at 7:00 AM Attila Lendvai <attila.lendvai@gmail.com> wrote:

> I use a vanilla Quicklisp installation. For some local directory
> trees I configure ASDF to prefer those trees over the standard
> Quicklisp versions by placing text like the following in my
> $HOME/.config/common-lisp/source-registry.conf file:
>
> (:source-registry
> (:tree "/home/brown/toe/open-source/")
> ;; For swank.asd
> (:tree "/home/brown/local/software/source/slime/")
> :inherit-configuration)


+1 for this as the simplest path to the desired outcome.


> ./configure
> make
> sudo make install
>
> and it works! I can put the clone anywhere I want. I can change it
> anyway I want. The system doesn't fight me.


that system is a struggle in so many other ways (dll hell; all the
/usr/include stuff; etc...). and from all the various linux distros,
precious few can achieve the equivalent of the CL ecosystem WRT
reproducibility and fine-grained control over the versions of the
dependencies (NixOS and Guix are the ones i'm aware of).

the seeming simplicity of that ./configure dance has an enormous cost
that only shows up when it doesn't work in apparent or in covertly
surprising ways.

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