[Lispweb] Re: TBNL via asdf-install fails

[Christophe Rhodes]

Edi Weitz <edi at agharta.de> writes:

> On Tue, 18 Oct 2005 07:07:36 +0100, Christophe Rhodes <csr21 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
>> It works for me.  Are you using the so-called "portable"
>> asdf-install, or the one distributed with SBCL?
>
> I said
>
>   (require :asdf-install)
>
> and SBCL happily loaded the "so-called 'portable'" version.

OK, so the asdf-install you're using isn't the one distributed with
SBCL.  In the version from <http://weitz.de/asdf-install/>, I see no
code which attempts to deal with character encoding issues with SBCL,
so the results you get will depend on the locale you are running in.
This is not a bug in SBCL, but should be taken up with the maintainer
of the code at that location.  Bugs in Debian packaging should
similarly go to the debian bug tracking system; if (require
:asdf-install) is giving you the asdf-install that doesn't go with
SBCL, that's wrong too, and if sbcl is uninstallable because of the
age of the kernel, that's an obvious nonsense.

(If I'm sounding a bit short at this point, it's because this is the
third time in as many days that I have had to diagnose the same bug in
the same third-party software for which SBCL distributes its own,
working, version.)

Cheers,

Christophe