[Common Lisp] asdf-build-system/source should refer to dependencies in the store

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Pierre Neidhardt wrote on 4 Mar 2020 09:12

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The sbcl build system generates a new .asd that refers to all the

required input explicitly in the store.

The asdf-build-system/source does not do that. Because of this,

installing the source packages in a profile does not work as expected:

loading the source in a Common Lisp REPL will fail, complaining about

missing dependencies.

I suggest we use an .asd generation similar to that of the SBCL build system.

Pierre Neidhardt

Pierre Neidhardt wrote on 7 May 2020 19:11

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I made a mistaken in the original post: the cl-* (source) packages do

propagate their input. So source packages _do_ work as expected.

What we'd like to do improve here is _not_ propagate the inputs and

instead refer directly to them in the store.

I tried generating and .asd which would do the following

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(asdf:load-asd ORIGINAL-ASD)

(push INPUT-PATH-TO-SOURCE asdf:*central-registry*)

; more push of all inputs here.

The problem is that we can't name the .asd like the original or ASDF

will complain about circular dependencies.

The only way I can think about is to add the "push" lines to the

original .asd itself (at the end should be fine). Not sure how I feel

about modifying the original .asd, seems brittle.

There may be a better way.

Pierre Neidhardt

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