Well, the cffi loaded by ql is: beta.quicklisp.org/archive/cffi/2015-09-23/cffi_0.16.1.tgz

The list of beta releases at https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/releases.html shows 0.19.0

Uninstalling and reinstalling pulled down cffi_0.16.1 again.

I'll have to look at a manual override.



On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 2:05 PM, Ken Tilton <kentilton@gmail.com> wrote:
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.
>>
>> [condition type: FORMATTED-SYSTEM-DEFINITION-ERROR]
>
>
> Is that an ASDF issue? Ceramic? ACL? cffi-grovel (the system being built
> when the error is thrown)?
>
You need a fresher version of cffi-grovel. Update your quicklisp
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?
>
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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C is a DSL for turning low-level byte arrays into security advisories.




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