From: Lars Rune Nøstdal
Subject: Re: asdf help
Date: 
Message-ID: <1226437789.15343.54.camel@blackbox.nostdal.org>
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 12:24 -0800, sebastiano.dimartina wrote:
> I alwayse receive  the error message:
> READ from #<INPUT STRING-INPUT-STREAM>: there is no package with name
> #1="ASDF-INSTALL"
> 
> in lispbox (gigamonkeys) with Clisp preinstalled and adsf pre loaded.
> (Win32)
> 
> I tried to load more then 30 libs n i always received this message and
> just this message:
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> READ from #<INPUT STRING-INPUT-STREAM>: there is no package with name
> #1="ASDF-INSTALL"
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

i've never used the lispbox package so i might be going about this
wrong, but did you consider after, say the 2 first tries, that
asdf-install - as a package itself - does not exist or has not been
loaded? i mean, for SBCL:

        * (not-existing-package:some-function 1234 4321)
        
        debugger invoked on a SB-INT:SIMPLE-READER-PACKAGE-ERROR in thread #<THREAD "initial thread" RUNNING {A8E9759}>:
          SB-INT:SIMPLE-READER-PACKAGE-ERROR on #<SYNONYM-STREAM :SYMBOL SB-SYS:*STDIN* {9116EE1}>:
            package "NOT-EXISTING-PACKAGE" not found
        
        * (find-package :asdf-install)
        NIL
        
        
..and for CLISP:
        
        1]> (not-existing-package:some-function 1234 4321)
        
        *** - READ from #<INPUT CONCATENATED-STREAM #<INPUT STRING-INPUT-STREAM> #<IO TERMINAL-STREAM>>: there is no package with name "NOT-EXISTING-PACKAGE"
        The following restarts are available:
        ABORT          :R1      Abort main loop
        Break 1 [2]> :r1
        [1]> (find-package :asdf-install)
        NIL
        
        
..and because of this, you start digging:
  http://common-lisp.net/project/asdf-install/tutorial/setup.html


ok, so ASDF-INSTALL is included with SBCL, we just got to load it:

        * (require :asdf-install) 
        ...
        ...
        * (find-package :asdf-install)
        #<PACKAGE "ASDF-INSTALL">
        

..for CLISP, assuming ASDF is installed and loaded ofc.:
        
        1]> (asdf:operate 'asdf:compile-op :asdf-install) 
        ...
        2]> (asdf:operate 'asdf:load-op :asdf-install) 
        ...
        3]> (find-package :asdf-install)
        #<PACKAGE "ASDF-INSTALL">


> when i write for example:
> (asdf-install:install "http://weitz.de/files/cl-ppcre.tar.gz")
> or local tgz or many other libs...
> 
> I read tutorial  "http://common-lisp.net/project/asdf-install/tutorial/
> install.html" but Im going nut.

*grr* .. you already _read_ this? .. liar!


> I was  a Z80 coder 25 years ago, i can install easily a PLT Planet
> package or compile python with mingw....
> I cannot load ANY Lisp lib...

blahblahblah .. cry me a river :}


> Any Suggest? (witxh to Linux?)
From: sebastiano.dimartina
Subject: Re: asdf help
Date: 
Message-ID: <a24ced8f-236b-4644-9b7d-8010a03f55c7@a3g2000prm.googlegroups.com>
I used SBCL to verify asdf-install n all tried ok
I didn't read carefully asdf tutorial.
Lispbox doesn't load the asdf-install.
Next time i will read better error messages...