Re: [Next browser] Common Lisp: mgl-pax: Package SWANK-BACKEND does not exist.

[Andy Patterson <ajpatter@uwaterloo.ca>]

Hi Pierre,

On Sun, 02 Sep 2018 18:59:12 +0200
Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> wrote:

> I tried your suggestion.
> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> (snippet
>         '(begin
>            (substitute* "contrib/swank-listener-hooks.lisp"
>              ((":compile-toplevel :load-toplevel ") ""))
>            (substitute* "contrib/swank-presentations.lisp"
>              ((":compile-toplevel :load-toplevel ") ""))
>            #t))
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> SWANK builds, but when I try to build mgl-pax, I get the following
> error:

Glad that helped.

> 
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> Unhandled SB-KERNEL:SIMPLE-PACKAGE-ERROR in thread #<SB-THREAD:THREAD
> "main thread" RUNNING {10005585B3}>:  
>   Error finding package for symbol "*SOURCE-DIRECTORY*":
>  The name "SWANK-LOADER" does not designate any package.
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> I guess the ASDF is incomplete.
> 

Yeah, could be. If you update your branch with the swank package
definition and your mgl-pax package, I'll take a look and see if I can
find out how to fix the issue.

Thanks,

--
Andy