Thanks for your explanations and corrections. I just updated ECL to use 1.634.
Thank you for your always prompt action!
FYI, the reason why I did not add **/*.* is because the sbcl case was just specified like that: (getenv "SBCL_HOME"), which is what I more or less adapted. Someone should have a look at that, because asdf might be broken for sbcl.
Don't worry: the getenv returns a string object, which unlike pathname objects, gets wildened with "**/*.*".
The ASDF systems I provide are tied to the implementation in that they come pre-built and require that particular version but should not overwrite whatever the user provides: they include asdf, sb-profile, clx, sockets, etc, and I would not feel very comfortable imposing our choice of tools when there might be newer versions out there.
Sure, then you shouldn't put them in the wrapping-source-registry (except maybe at the end, after :inherit-configuration).
It may be redundant but I would like to see ECL's own asdf path somehow hardcoded in asdf.lisp, not as a main search place but as an always there option. The reason is that we already had a couple of cases in which people overwrote ASDF's search path, resulting in ECL being unable to locate any of its default tools when ASDF:LOAD-OP'ed.
That would be adding a path at the end of the wrapping-source-registry.
Thanks again for your help. Using the latest changes in ASDF ECL is now capable of building and shipping its own versions of CLX and other tools in a way that can then be linked to other FASL, programs or shared libraries using the ASDF extensions we already had.
Yay! Congratulations, and thanks for using our latest ASDF.
[ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ] Trillions of fossils can't be wrong!