It took me a while but I'm learning. On my server I run CMUCL and work on understanding Common Lisp Hypermedia Server (CL-HTTP), on my workstation I use SBCL playing around with a few libraries to learn more about their handling.
So far I understood
- that in /usr/share/common-lisp/source all sources go
- while in /usr/share/common-lisp/systems the ASD File coming along with most libs is symlinked
Thes ASD files tell how files are compiled and loaded (ASDF-System) - As SBCL includes asdf (Another System Definition Facility) handling of libraries is quite easy
About 4 weeks ago I started with LISP and slowly but surely I can read sources and even understand what's done – when it's not too complex.
Edit: Getting errors on compilation of libs I thought "ok, my mistake". But re-compiling everything suddenly CLX/MCCLIM threw other errors. So I fetched current sources from CVS, but same result. Before giving up a last try from plain SBCL. Now everything worked. This drives me nuts, as I can't find the reasons for such different behaviour.
