Diogo is correct that symlinks are (1) not needed anymore (2) frowned upon.
Indeed, unless you export XDG_DATA_DIRS or some weird shit like that, then (asdf::default-source-registry) will end with (:TREE #P"/usr/share/common-lisp/source/") So that it should find systems under there even without any symlink to systems/ And indeed when I HOME=/tmp sbcl --noinform --non-interactive --eval '(require :asdf)' --eval '(format t "~A~%" (asdf:system-source-directory :cl-ppcre))' /usr/share/common-lisp/source/cl-ppcre/ (The HOME=/tmp is so it won't use my personal configuration files) I blame your misconfiguration. If you don't use XDG_DATA_DIRS, do you have something in your configuration that uses :ignore-inherited-configuration then goes on to register /usr/share/common-lisp/systems ? —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• http://fare.tunes.org There is no such thing as a "necessary evil". If it's necessary, then it cannot be evil, neither can it be good: it's a datum. — Faré On Sat, Sep 21, 2013 at 9:45 PM, Diogo F. S. Ramos <diogo...@gmail.com> wrote: >> diogo...@gmail.com (Diogo F. S. Ramos) writes: >>> Is this still necessary? >>> >>> My understanding is that one does not need to symlink to >>> `/usr/share/common-list/systems/<package>.asd' anymore. >>> >>> See >>> <http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-common-lisp-devel/2012-September/003238.html>. >> >> Well the thing is, asdf does not seem to be able to locate the systems >> and after adding the symlink it does again. So either asdf is broken in >> this regard or the symlinks are still/again needed > > Indeed. > > I tried loading alexandria and ppcre but I couldn't. > > Unfortunately I don't know enough of SBCL/ASDF/Debian to track this > down, but I can confirm that just installing the systems is not enough > for loading them. > > _______________________________________________ > pkg-common-lisp-devel mailing list > pkg-common-lisp-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-common-lisp-devel _______________________________________________ pkg-common-lisp-devel mailing list pkg-common-lisp-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pkg-common-lisp-devel
