[cxml-devel] Re: ASDF build problems on SBCL 0.9.11+

James Bielman jamesjb@jamesjb.com writes:

I've been trying to load CXML using both the released version 0.9.11 and most recent CVS of SBCL, and receive the following error (this happens with both the latest CXML release available via ASDF-INSTALL and the CVS version):

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debugger invoked on a TYPE-ERROR in thread #<THREAD "initial thread" {1002E931A1}>: The value NIL is not of type REAL.

It looks like this is happening on the file components that override the pathname, like:

(:file rune-impl :pathname "dom-impl" :depends-on ("package"))

ASDF tries to call FILE-WRITE-DATE on ".../dom-impl", which of course doesn't exist, and bombs out in MAX. This patch fixes this issue for me, but I'm not sure if it's the best way.

Thanks, James