<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; ">Sorry to belabor the point, but I'm still having a little trouble -- but this might be due to not fully groking asdf. I'm trying your third suggestion: Here is the file of the system I'm defining (in case the context is causing trouble):<BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;">(in-package :cl-user)</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;">;;; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;">(defpackage #:asdf-lbn-system (:use #:asdf #:cl))</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;">(in-package #:asdf-lbn-system)</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;">;;; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;">;; Use jLinker</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;">(require :jlinker)</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;">;;; ---------------------------------------------------------------------------</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;">(defsystem :lbn</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"> :depends-on (:lbn-package :lbn-src))</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;">(defsystem :lbn-package</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"> :depends-on (:gbbopen)</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"> :components</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"> ((:system :gbbopen</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"> :components ((:system :agenda-shell-user)))</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"> (:module "dev"</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"> :serial t</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"> :components ((:file "package") (:file "logical-pathnames")))))</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;">(defsystem :lbn-src</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"> :depends-on (:lbn-package)</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"> :components </SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"> ((:module "dev"</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"> :serial t</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"> :components ((:file "hello-java") ))))</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>My strategy here is to conceptually separate the package loading from the lbn source, but have a top-level :lbn system that I can call. The lbn package uses gbbopen, so I want the gbbopen package to exist by the time I'm doing the package definition. So I have made :lbn-package depend on :gbbopen, and as per your last example, added the :gbbopen system as a component (with the agenda-shell-user component) of :lbn-package. But the agenda-shell-user system is not being loaded before the lbn package def, so the gbbopen package can't be used by the lbn package.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I also tried your second suggestion and that works fine:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;">(in-package :cl-user)</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;">(require :asdf)</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;">(asdf:operate 'asdf:load-op :gbbopen)</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;">(asdf:defsystem :mysys</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"> :depends-on (:agenda-shell-user)</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"> :components</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"> ((:module "dev"</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"> :serial t</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"> :components ((:file "package")</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"> (:file "logical-pathnames")</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"> (:file "hello-java")))))</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I can live with this because the first <FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;">(asdf:operate 'asdf:load-op :gbbopen)</SPAN></FONT> only defines the gbbopen systems (via the mini-module).</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I did, however, find one small issue with this latter approach: when compiling gbbopen on my system, the directory darwin-allegro-m-8.1/ is created in the GBBopen root directory and all of the fasls live under it (in respective subdirectories), but if I'm compiling gbbopen for the first time while loading :mysys, then I get the continuable error that the mini-module directory does not yet exist -- one of the continuations creates this and any other missing directories; once I select that continuation, everything completes and loads fine. I don't get this error when I load manually:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;">(load "/Users/clayton/repository/bootstrap-learning/lisp/GBBopen/startup.lisp")</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Monaco" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;">(mini-module:compile-module :gbbopen-test :propagate :create-dirs)</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>presumably because of the :create-dirs directive.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Sorry if this is getting obtuse -- is what I'm doing non-standard? Thanks for you help,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-Clay</DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Aug 11, 2007, at 9:47 AM, Dan Corkill wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I'm moving this over to the GBBopen user list, as this discussion may be</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">helpful to others...</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I did see that gbbopen.asd is like a "wrapper" for the</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">gbbopen mini-module fns.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I'm trying the asdf route for GBBopen just to</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">be uniform and "asdf-like" with my other asdf systems, so that I can</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">just put :gbbopen in my depends-on list.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Also, in my setup it makes a</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">more "uniform" interface to systems because I have asdf register all</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">systems in a sandbox, then I can load them without having to</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">individually specify paths.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">My output looks like this (alo is just a shortcut for<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(asdf:operate 'asdf:load-op <name>)):</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">cl-user> (alo :gbbopen)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">; loading system definition from</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>...</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">; registering #<system :gbbopen @ #x106cfa22> as gbbopen</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">; registering #<system :mini-module @ #x106ed312> as mini-module</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">; registering #<system :gbbopen-tools @ #x1070dfa2> as gbbopen-tools</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>...</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">; registering #<system :http-test @ #x10722cda> as http-test</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">; registering #<system :agenda-shell-test @ #x1074312a> as</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">; agenda-shell-test</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">; registering #<system :compile-gbbopen @ #x10764102> as compile-gbbopen</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">nil</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">cl-user></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">After this, the gbbopen package doesn't exist and it looks like only</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">registration of the systems took place.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Is that expected?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Is there a</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">way through the gbbopen asdf interface to compile the system(s) if their</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">fasl's are out of date?</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The :gbbopen "system" defined in gbbopen.asd is, as you guessed, only</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the ASDF registrations of the GBBopen modules (loaded as "in memory"</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">ASDF systems).<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>There's not really a single combinations of GBBopen</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">modules that is "GBBopen" (maybe :agenda-shell-user comes closest). To</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">actually compile/load a desired GBBopen module via ASDF, a second</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">asdf:operate is required (for reasons to be explained shortly).<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>So, if</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">you were doing this in the REPL (using your aol), you would need to do:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(alo :gbbopen)<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>; to load the GBBopen module registrations</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">followed by:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(alo :agenda-shell-user)<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>; for example, if that is the desired</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>; GBBopen module</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">If you are defining your own mysys.asd definition, it could look like:</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(in-package :cl-user)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(require :asdf)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(asdf:operate 'asdf:load-op :gbbopen)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(asdf:defsystem mysys</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>:depends-on (:agenda-shell-user)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>...</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>)</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Again, the first asdf:operate loads the registrations and the second the</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">:agenda-shell-user module.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>The above asdf-system definition can be</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">improved, so that both activities happen as dependencies of mysys (and</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">are only loaded into CL if mysys is loaded):</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(in-package :cl-user)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(require :asdf)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">(asdf:defsystem mysys</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>:depends-on (:gbbopen)</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>:components ((:system :gbbopen<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>:components ((:system :agenda-shell-user)))</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>...</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>))</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Then your (alo :mysys) will operate as you are expecting.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">We could have taken the approach of having *.asd files for each of the</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">typical GBBopen module combinations, but having more than one *.asd file</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">for all of GBBopen just seemed needless and messy to maintain.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>The one</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">gbbopen.asd is essentially a bootstrapping mechanism for all the GBBopen</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">modules.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I need to get this information added to the Reference Manual (!)...</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">-- Dan</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY><br />--
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