I am wondering how c-l-c is supposed to work, after the latest changes wrt permissions and ownerships. The problem I am having is that I had problems to get this to work: (clc:clc-require :clsql-mysql) The error message is not particularly helpful, but digging around, I finally notice that the problem is that my uid directory in /var/cache/common-lisp did not exist, and since the directory is owned by root, creating it (as part of the asdf ops) failed. So I was about to gear for bug reporting c-l-c, but further experiments revealed that (clc:clc-require :aserve) did in fact work. My uid subdir was created and files compiled, and then I could also get clsql to compile and load, since I own the uid subdir and can create further subdirs there without further issues. Looking over the control scripts in /var/lib/dpkg for the two packages did not reveal any obvious differences, so I am left wondering how c-l-c works its magic to allow the creating of user subdirs in /var/cache and why it works for cl-aserve but not for cl-sql-mysql, when the user subdir is missing? ------------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Christian Lynbech | christian #\@ defun #\. dk ------------------------+----------------------------------------------------- Hit the philistines three times over the head with the Elisp reference manual. - petonic@hal.com (Michael A. Petonic)