Well, the cffi loaded by ql is: beta.quicklisp.org/archive/cffi/2015-09-23/cffi_0.16.1.tgz
The list of beta releases at https://www.quicklisp.org/beta/releases.html shows 0.19.0 Uninstalling and reinstalling pulled down cffi_0.16.1 again. I'll have to look at a manual override. On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 2:05 PM, Ken Tilton <kentil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the info. But Ceramic just built on the same windows laptop > under ccl64. Maybe the asdf AllegroCL provides is getting in the way? I > will look also at tossing cffi just to get a fresh start. > > -kt > > On Tue, Dec 26, 2017 at 1:55 PM, Faré <fah...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> Error: OPERATION instances must only be created through MAKE-OPERATION. >> >> >> >> [condition type: FORMATTED-SYSTEM-DEFINITION-ERROR] >> > >> > >> > Is that an ASDF issue? Ceramic? ACL? cffi-grovel (the system being built >> > when the error is thrown)? >> > >> You need a fresher version of cffi-grovel. Update your quicklisp >> and/or make sure you don't have an antique version of cffi in your >> local-projects and/or source-registry. >> >> > Does quicklisp use its own copy of ASDF for stability? >> > >> quicklisp provides an antique asdf 2.26 that is only loaded in even >> more antique implementations. All maintained implementations have been >> providing asdf 3.1 or later for over a year. >> >> —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• >> http://fare.tunes.org >> C is a DSL for turning low-level byte arrays into security advisories. >> >> > > > -- > Kenneth Tilton > http://tiltontec.com/ > -- Kenneth Tilton http://tiltontec.com/