The contents of laturk-unique.asd:
(in-package :asdf) (defsystem "laturk-unique" :version "0.1.0" :name "laturk-unique" :author "Louis A. Turk" :description "Converts utf-8 text file to list of sorted unique words." :components ((:file "packages") (:file "iterate" :depends-on ("packages")) (:file "collate" :depends-on ("iterate")) (:file "laturk-unique" :depends-on ("collate"))))
A couple of random suggestions:
1. Don't put this into the :asdf package. If you want to, create your own package, using ASDF and COMMON-LISP, and put the definition in there (there's some debate about whether this is strictly necessary, but that's a subtlety we don't need to go into now).
I beg to disagree. If you're not going to define new bindings, and particularly if you're not even going to intern new symbols, there's nothing wrong with being in package ASDF.
2. Don't rely on transitive closure for dependencies. E.g., probably collate depends on packages as well as iterate and similarly for laturk-unique.
Here too I beg to disagree. Unless and until there is a tool for which this makes a difference, the only criterion for choosing what dependencies to explicitly include is what makes for a more maintainable result, at which point the author knows best.
There's nothing obviously wrong with the above, though. Question: can you give us more information about what happens when you do
(asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :laturk-unique)
(or, if you're using asdf2, (asdf:load-system :laturk-unique) )?
I'm not sure it it's failing to find ANY of your files or only collate.lisp --- is collate.lisp the first one it tries to open?
Also, when you get this error, collect a backtrace from the debugger and pass it on, please.
Yup. Also, tell us in what directories things are, and whether you made any changes to ASDF default settings. [ François-René ÐVB Rideau | Reflection&Cybernethics | http://fare.tunes.org ] Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. — Henry Ford