Those who run into this and need to get work done with devhead SBCL can in the meanwhile stick this in their .sbclrc after the #-quicklisp stanza.
(The effect of the code is that REQUIRE and ASDF:LOAD-SYSTEM won't pull in quicklisp systems -- you need to use QL:QUICKLOAD to load things with dependencies satisfied by Quicklisp. It's ugly, but it does the job.)
#+quicklisp (progn (setf asdf:*system-definition-search-functions* (remove 'ql-dist::find-asdf-system-file asdf:*system-definition-search-functions*)) (defvar *quickload* #'ql:quickload) (handler-bind ((style-warning #'muffle-warning)) (defun ql:quickload (&rest args) (let ((asdf:*system-definition-search-functions* (append asdf:*system-definition-search-functions* (list 'ql-dist::find-asdf-system-file)))) (apply *quickload* args)))))
Cheers,
-- Nikodemus