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