It seems that you have outdated clx on ypur system. Loke very outdated. Is your quicklisp distribution uodated? Are you sure you don't have some ancient clx lying around? Try (ql:update-all-dists) And (asdf:locate-system "clx") Maybe these will help with troubleshotting the issue. Best, Daniel -- Daniel Kochmański ;; aka jackdaniel | Przemyśl, Poland TurtleWare - Daniel Kochmański | www.turtleware.eu "Be the change that you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi On Monday, February 2nd, 2026 at 17:19, James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> wrote:
using |(ql:quickload "mcclim")| on an up to date gentoo ~amd64 box with sbcl-2.6.0 fails.
x11-libs/libX11 is 1.8.12.
the error report is:
[package mcclim-bidi].; ; caught ERROR: ; READ error during COMPILE-FILE: ; ; The symbol "RENDER-SET-PICTURE-TRANSFORM" is not external in the XLIB package. ; ; Line: 73, Column: 48, File-Position: 2981 ; ; Stream: #<SB-INT:FORM-TRACKING-STREAM for "file /home/cloos/quicklisp/dists/quicklisp/software/mcclim-20260101-git/Backends/CLX/drawing.lisp" {12032D0003}>
debugger invoked on a UIOP/LISP-BUILD:COMPILE-FILE-ERROR in thread #<THREAD tid=27300 "main thread" RUNNING {1200030003}>:
COMPILE-FILE-ERROR while compiling #<CL-SOURCE-FILE "mcclim-clx" "output" "drawing">
Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:EXIT) to exit from SBCL.
... (restarts elided) ...
(UIOP/LISP-BUILD:CHECK-LISP-COMPILE-RESULTS NIL T T "~/asdf-action::format-action/" ((#<ASDF/LISP-ACTION:COMPILE-OP > . #<ASDF/LISP-ACTION:CL-SOURCE-FILE "mcclim-clx" "output" "drawing">)))
source: (ERROR 'COMPILE-FILE-ERROR :CONTEXT-FORMAT CONTEXT-FORMAT :CONTEXT-ARGUMENTS CONTEXT-ARGUMENTS)
-JimC -- James Cloos cloos@jhcloos.com