Re: [STUMP] Re: Use git describe in *version* when building from git

[Shawn Betts]

On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:28 AM, Ben Spencer <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 01:41:30AM +0100, Julian Stecklina wrote:
>> I just noticed that this doesn't work with the RELOAD command, because
>> the current working directory is most likely your $HOME instead of the
>> stumpwm source directory. The attached patch fixes this problem, but is
>> a bit ugly. Is there a more beautiful solution?
>
> This breaks when loading stumpwm from a REPL.  I discovered this when
> trying it out with CCL, but it turns out to affect SBCL too:

> 0: (PATHNAME-DIRECTORY NIL)[:EXTERNAL]
> 1: (SB-INT:SIMPLE-EVAL-IN-LEXENV
>    (PATHNAME-DIRECTORY *LOAD-PATHNAME*)

Not quite sure why *load-pathname* is nil at the repl but not when
building an image. the image is created exactly the same way: require
stumpwm then dump the image. Are you certain it's not also busted when
building an image?

-Shawn