Hi Jeremy,
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 00:51, Jeremy Reimer jeremy.reimer@gmail.com wrote:
However I'm a bit confused about how to proceed to compile from source from all these .lisp files. Do I still use asdf, and if so how do I point to the newly-downloaded source? Sorry about the complete newb questions, I've been going through various tutorials on the web about Hunchentoot and none of them mention using SVN.
You ran into the "Common Lisp package management is a mess" wall, but don't despair, it is not that hard.
asdf is the predominant system building facility, make-alike if you will. asdf-install is just an add-on, but it is not used by many open source developers and thus not well supported.
Have a look at http://common-lisp.net/~mmommer/asdf-howto.shtml - In the end, it explains how you point asdf at your system definition files.
-Hans