Thanks for the info. But Ceramic just built on the same windows laptop under ccl64. Maybe the asdf AllegroCL provides is getting in the way? I will look also at tossing cffi just to get a fresh start.-kt--On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Faré <fahree@gmail.com> wrote:>> Error: OPERATION instances must only be created through MAKE-OPERATION.
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>> [condition type: FORMATTED-SYSTEM-DEFINITION-ERROR] You need a fresher version of cffi-grovel. Update your quicklisp
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> Is that an ASDF issue? Ceramic? ACL? cffi-grovel (the system being built
> when the error is thrown)?
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and/or make sure you don't have an antique version of cffi in your
local-projects and/or source-registry.
> Does quicklisp use its own copy of ASDF for stability?
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quicklisp provides an antique asdf 2.26 that is only loaded in even
more antique implementations. All maintained implementations have been
providing asdf 3.1 or later for over a year.
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