When (asdf:oos 'asdf:load-op :asdf-binary-locations) is invoked asdf looks for some documentation files and fails. This seems to be a common prolem with asdf packages on Gentoo. The ebuild places the documentation is a separate documentation direcrtory (usually /usr/share/doc); but asdf looks for certain documentation such as LICENSE, README, etc. in the /usr/share/common-lisp/source directories.
dev-lisp/cl-asdf-binary-locations-20061018
Here is a typical use case: User saves an image, then loads it... frayser@gentoo ~/lib/lisp/sbcl $ sbcl This is SBCL 1.0.14-gentoo, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp. More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>. SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty. It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under BSD-style licenses. See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the distribution for more information. ; loading system definition from ; /usr/share/common-lisp/systems/asdf-binary-locations.asd into ; #<PACKAGE "ASDF0"> ; registering #<SYSTEM ASDF-BINARY-LOCATIONS {AEB7C59}> as ASDF-BINARY-LOCATIONS CL-USER[1]: (save-lisp-and-die "test.core") (save-lisp-and-die "test.core") [undoing binding stack and other enclosing state... done] [saving current Lisp image into /export/home/frayser/lib/lisp/sbcl/test.core: writing 2976 bytes from the read-only space at 0x01000000 writing 2160 bytes from the static space at 0x01100000 writing 24989696 bytes from the dynamic space at 0x09000000 done] frayser@gentoo ~/lib/lisp/sbcl $ sbcl --core test.core This is SBCL 1.0.14-gentoo, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp. More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>. SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty. It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under BSD-style licenses. See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the distribution for more information. debugger invoked on a SIMPLE-ERROR in thread #<THREAD "initial thread" {A7D56D1}>: Error during processing of initialization file /etc/sbclrc: failed to find the WRITE-DATE of #<PATHNAME (with no namestring) :HOST #<SB-IMPL::UNIX-HOST {91386A1}> :DEVICE NIL :DIRECTORY (:ABSOLUTE "usr" "share" "common-lisp" "source" "asdf-binary-locations" "dev") :NAME "notes.text" :TYPE NIL :VERSION :NEWEST>: No such file or directory Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL. restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name): 0: [CONTINUE] Ignore and continue processing. 1: [ABORT ] Skip this initialization file. 2: Skip to toplevel READ/EVAL/PRINT loop. 3: [QUIT ] Quit SBCL (calling #'QUIT, killing the process). ((LAMBDA (SB-IMPL::E)) #<SB-INT:SIMPLE-FILE-ERROR {A811039}>) 0]
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