New at this, sure could use a pointer. I'm not able to get the code to build consistently. It works only after a failure. So I have to do it twice to get it to go. Sure would like to know what is wrong here.

These are the directories:

/home/LE/sbcl/LE.asd ;holds the definition, as shown below
/home/LE/sbcl/src ;holds the lisp source files for my project

The system is Debian, udpated today. quicklisp is installed.

These are the commands I type:

(require :asdf)
(pushnew (truename ".") asdf:*central-registry* :test #'equal)
(asdf:load-system :LE)
(require :LE)
(use-package 'LE)

in a fresh environment this fails, and dumps me in the debugger, asdf:load-system tells me:

"Component :LE not found:

Then I exit the debugger, and run it a second time and it works. Not sure, may need quotes the first time, a colon the second, i.e. it is quirky.

I have tried a lot of variations of the above, pretty much every example I've been able to find, some have "LE" instead of :LE everywhere.

Here is the value of asdf:*central-registry* after the push:

* asdf:*central-registry*

(#P"/home/LE/sbcl/" #P"/home/mordecai/quicklisp/quicklisp/")

Here is the asdf file that is located in /home/LE/sbcl:

(in-package :asdf-user)

(defsystem #:LE
:name "LE"
:version "0.1"
:author "Thomas W. Lynch <thomas.lynch@reasoningtechnology.com>"
:description "Lynch's extensions"
:depends-on ("local-time")
;; :serial t
:components((:module "src"
:components (
(:file "package")
(:file "fundamental" :depends-on ("package"))
(:file "test" :depends-on ("fundamental"))
(:file "string" :depends-on ("test"))
(:file "functions" :depends-on ("test"))
(:file "list-0" :depends-on ("functions"))
;; (:file "list-L" :depends-on ("list-0"))
))))