[Gcl-devel] ASDF 2.147

[Faré]

Dear GCL developers,

I just released ASDF 2.010 but unhappily, it's broken on GCL.

However, ASDF 2.147 fixes the most glaring issues: adding a defpackage
that GCL craves, and correctly working around a bug whereby GCL fails
to put :relative at the head of the pathname-directory of a relative
pathname.

Now, GCL also borks when I try to handle conditions, with such errors as:
Condition in IF [or a callee]: INTERNAL-SIMPLE-TYPE-ERROR:
CONDITIONS::INTERNAL-SIMPLE-MISSING-DEPEN
DENCY-OF-VERSION is not of type (SATISFIES
CONDITIONS::CONDITION-CLASS-P): Not a condition type: CONDITIONS::I
NTERNAL-SIMPLE-MISSING-DEPENDENCY-OF-VERSIONABORTING:
 #<CONDITIONS::INTERNAL-SIMPLE-TYPE-ERROR.0>

Looks like the condition system fails to make something a subclass of
CONDITION-CLASS then complains about it.
Note also the annoying missing newline between the condition and ABORTING:

I hope this is an artefact of my using debian's antiquated
GCL (GNU Common Lisp)  2.7.0 ANSI    May  7 2010 22:44:41
and that these bugs have been fixed upstream. If not, could you please
prioritize them?
I'm sorry I released ASDF before to bother to make it work on GCL; it
will be working next time I release.

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