Giles,
On 08 Mar 2006, at 20:37, Giles Roberts wrote:
> Dear Sven,
>
> I'm wondering if you could help me with your libraries.
>
> I'm trying unsuccessfully to asdf-install cl-prevalence.
>
> My OS is WinXP Pro sp 2. My compiler is LispWorks Personal Edition
> 4.4.6.
>
> The command I'm using is:
>
> (asdf-install:install :cl-prevalence)
>
> Asdf seems to do the download and some of the compiling ok. When it
> gets to compiling debug-prevalence.lisp, I get the following error
> message:
>
> Compiling file
> c:\lisp\asdf-install\site\cl-prevalence\src\debug-prevalence.lisp ...
> ;;; Safety = 3, Speed = 1, Space = 1, Float = 1, Interruptible = 0
> ;;; Compilation speed = 1, Debug = 2, Fixnum safety = 3
> ;;; Source level debugging is on
> ;;; Source file recording is on
> ;;; Cross referencing is on
> ; (TOP-LEVEL-FORM 1)
> ; (TOP-LEVEL-FORM 2)
>
> Error: S-XML:ECHO-XML does not exist at all.
> 1 (continue) Create symbol.
> 2 Try reading the next form.
> 3 Try compiling
> c:\lisp\asdf-install\site\cl-prevalence\src\debug-prevalence.lisp
> again.
> 4 Skip compiling
> c:\lisp\asdf-install\site\cl-prevalence\src\debug-prevalence.lisp.
> 5 Retry performing #<ASDF:COMPILE-OP NIL 219DBF44> on
> #<ASDF:CL-SOURCE-FILE "debug-prevalence" 219818DC>.
> 6 Continue, treating #<ASDF:COMPILE-OP NIL 219DBF44>
> on
> #<ASDF:CL-SOURCE-FILE "debug-prevalence" 219818DC>
> as having been successful.
> 7 Retry installation
> 8 (abort) Return to level 0.
> 9 Return to top loop level 0.
>
> Type :b for backtrace, :c <option number> to proceed, or :? for other
> options
>
> This error message appears to be correct. When I check in
> debug-prevalence.lisp there's a call to s-xml:echo-xml in the defun of
> print-transaction-log. I think the package s-xml is defined by the
> files in
>
> the asdf directory s-xml/src/. There is no reference to echo-xml in
> these files.
>
> I've separately downloaded s-xml.tgz from commonlisp.net and asdf-
> installed
> that successfully from a local file. On downloading cl-
> prevalence.tgz and
> asdf-installing I get the same error message as above.
>
> Checking
> http://common-lisp.net/project/cl-containers/asdf-status/website/
> output/ for
> the status of these packages indicates both as installing
> correctly. It
> doesn't list LispWorks on Windows as one of the tested
> installations. Is
> there some incompatibility with my OS / compiler or am I doing
> something
> wrong?
>
> As I'm new to lisp I don't want to start hacking these files to fix
> the
> problem. Are there newer versions of either of these asdfs? If so,
> how do I get them?
I thought I fixed that problem - and I did, but only in CVS HEAD, not
in the released tarball.
I made a new release and tested ASDF-INSTALL and it seems fine now.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Regards,
Sven
