Re: System compilation failure, CLPPCRE, ASDF, SBCL involved

Den Thu, 28 Feb 2008 17:50:26 +0100 skrev Holger Schauer:

Thanks. That indeed fixes both the warning and the error on ASDF
loading. While the problem at hand is now fixed, I would still be
interested to learn why a simple compilation warning may result in an
ASDF compile error. I would have thought that at the end of the day all
what ASDF does is to call compile-file. Usually warnings don't result in
errors during a load-op or compile-op, so is that also some kind of SBCL
special behaviour wrt. to type warnings or something?

No. It's a deficiency in reporting errors in COMPILE-FILE -- basically it
boils down to ASDF being unable to distinguish between warnings and
errors, so it has to error out on both (the alternative being to silently
accept both, which is even worse).

Cheers,
Maciej
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