Enable asdf directives even if --load-system is not used.

dangerousben commented 10 years ago

This allows the directives to be used even if asdf is invoked by other means.

xach commented 10 years ago

Thanks. Can you give me an example of when this is needed?

dangerousben commented 10 years ago

I'm experimenting with using buildapp to build stumpwm. Typically quicklisp is used to install the dependencies, while stumpwm itself is cloned from git and asdf-loaded via this file: https://github.com/dangerousben/stumpwm/blob/buildapp/load-stumpwm.lisp.in#L28-33 (with @STUMPWM_ASDF_DIR@ set by configure).

My ql/ba based build process looks something like:

install dependencies via ql (currently manually but could be automated)
write ql manifest file
buildapp --output stumpwm --manifest-file quicklisp-manifest.txt --load load-stumpwm.lisp --entry stumpwm:stumpwm-cli

The point being that I can't simply use --load-system because stumpwm is not in the manifest file. Hope that makes sense, sorry for the verbosity.

xach commented 10 years ago

In the interim, you can always add --require asdf to your command line.

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