There is just one minor obstacle while loading CL-MATHSTATS. The function FACTORIAL-EXACT from DENSITY-FNS.LISP is not found. I have to load-compile the function by hand, retry and then it seems to work - no more complaints.

Hmmm, this looks like a load-time-value problem. Funnily enough, I was just telling someone this morning that I don't feel confident that I understand load-time-value's semantics and now I'll get to try and figure it out (I didn't write the code that uses it in CL- Mathstats originally). I'll try to stick in a work around first and then go from there. thanks again for your perseverance.

The error message is:

;;;------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Error in KERNEL::UNDEFINED-SYMBOL-ERROR-HANDLER: the function CL-MATHSTATS:FACTORIAL-EXACT is undefined. [Condition of type UNDEFINED-FUNCTION]

Restarts: 0: [CONTINUE] Return NIL from load of #P"/home/choppa/local/lisp/source/cl-mathstats/dev/density-fns.x86f". 1: [RETRY] Retry performing #<ASDF:LOAD-OP NIL {58B3C24D}> on #<ASDF:CL-SOURCE-FILE "density-fns" {58E55375}>. 2: [ACCEPT] Continue, treating #<ASDF:LOAD-OP NIL {58B3C24D}> on #<ASDF:CL-SOURCE-FILE "density-fns" {58E55375}> as having been successful. 3: [ABORT] Abort SLIME compilation. 4: [ABORT] Abort handling SLIME request. 5: [CONTINUE] Return NIL from load of "home:.cmucl-init". 6: [ABORT] Skip remaining initializations.

Backtrace: 0: (KERNEL::UNDEFINED-SYMBOL-ERROR-HANDLER "<error finding name>" #.(SYSTEM:INT-SAP #x3FFFBA1C) #<Alien (* (ALIEN:STRUCT NIL # # # ...)) at #x3FFFB694> (14)) Locals: KERNEL::FDEFN-OR-SYMBOL = #:INVALID #:G0 = #.(SYSTEM:INT-SAP #x3FFFBA1C) #:G1 = #<Alien (* (ALIEN:STRUCT NIL (X86::GS (ALIEN:UNSIGNED 16)) (X86::__GSH (ALIEN:UNSIGNED 16)) (X86::FS (ALIEN:UNSIGNED 16)) (X86::__FSH (ALIEN:UNSIGNED 16)) (X86::SC-ES (ALIEN:UNSIGNED 16)) (X86::__ESH (ALIEN:UNSIGNED 16)) (X86::SC-DS (ALIEN:UNSIGNED 16)) (X86::__DSH (ALIEN:UNSIGNED 16)) ...)) at #x3FFFB694> #:G2 = (14) KERNEL::NAME = "<error finding name>" ;;;------------------------------------------------------------------- -----

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