Upgrade asdf in sbcl failed

Question

I am failed to upgrade the asdf to version 3 as the page https://common-lisp.net/project/asdf/asdf.html#Replacing-your-implementation_0027s-ASDF said

Is there anything wrong with my environment?

CL-USER> (load "/Users/james/Documents/workdir/lisp/source/asdf/tools/install-asdf.lisp")

failed to find the TRUENAME of /usr/local/lib/sbcl/contrib/: No such file or directory [Condition of type SB-INT:SIMPLE-FILE-ERROR]

Restarts:

0: [RETRY] Retry EVAL of current toplevel form.

1:[CONTINUE] Ignore error and continue loading file "/Users/james/Documents/workdir/lisp/source/asdf/tools/install-asdf.lisp".

2: [ABORT] Abort loading file "/Users/james/Documents/workdir/lisp/source/asdf/tools/install-asdf.lisp".

3: [RETRY] Retry SLIME REPL evaluation request.

4: [*ABORT] Return to SLIME's top level.

5: [REMOVE-FD-HANDLER] Remove #

Backtrace:

0: (SB-IMPL::SIMPLE-FILE-PERROR "failed to find the TRUENAME of ~A" #P"/usr/local/lib/sbcl/contrib/" 2)

1: ((FLET SB-IMPL::FAIL :IN SB-IMPL::QUERY-FILE-SYSTEM) "failed to find the TRUENAME of ~A" #P"/usr/local/lib/sbcl/contrib/" 2)

2: (SB-IMPL::QUERY-FILE-SYSTEM #P"/usr/local/lib/sbcl/contrib/" :TRUENAME T)

3: (TRUENAME #P"/usr/local/lib/sbcl/contrib/")

4: (ASDF/INTERFACE::MODULE-FASL "uiop")

5: (ASDF/INTERFACE::INSTALL-UIOP-AND-ASDF-AS-MODULES)

6: (SB-INT:SIMPLE-EVAL-IN-LEXENV (ASDF/INTERFACE::INSTALL-UIOP-AND-ASDF-AS-MODULES) #)

7: (SB-IMPL::SIMPLE-EVAL-PROGN-BODY ((ASDF/INTERFACE::INSTALL-UIOP-AND-ASDF-AS-MODULES) (UIOP/IMAGE:QUIT)) #)

8: (SB-INT:SIMPLE-EVAL-IN-LEXENV (PROGN (ASDF/INTERFACE::INSTALL-UIOP-AND-ASDF-AS-MODULES) (UIOP/IMAGE:QUIT)) #)

9: (EVAL-TLF (PROGN (ASDF/INTERFACE::INSTALL-UIOP-AND-ASDF-AS-MODULES) (UIOP/IMAGE:QUIT)) 14 #)

10: ((FLET SB-FASL::EVAL-FORM :IN SB-INT:LOAD-AS-SOURCE) (PROGN (ASDF/INTERFACE::INSTALL-UIOP-AND-ASDF-AS-MODULES) (UIOP/IMAGE:QUIT)) 14)

11: (SB-INT:LOAD-AS-SOURCE # :VERBOSE NIL :PRINT NIL :CONTEXT "loading")

12: ((FLET SB-FASL::LOAD-STREAM :IN LOAD) # NIL)

13: (LOAD "/Users/james/Documents/workdir/lisp/source/asdf/tools/install-asdf.lisp" :VERBOSE NIL :PRINT NIL :IF-DOES-NOT-EXIST T :EXTERNAL-FORMAT :DEFAULT)

14: (SB-INT:SIMPLE-EVAL-IN-LEXENV (LOAD "/Users/james/Documents/workdir/lisp/source/asdf/tools/install-asdf.lisp") #)

15: (EVAL (LOAD "/Users/james/Documents/workdir/lisp/source/asdf/tools/install-asdf.lisp")) --more--

Answer 1

How is your SBCL installed?

Did you compile your own SBCL yet fail to use --prefix=... or export INSTALL_ROOT=... when compiling SBCL but not installing it under /usr/local ?

Answer 2

I just encountered the same problem. In my case, it was because I installed sbcl with brew install sbcl but failed to notice that brew didn't complete the symlinking stage. brew link --overwrite sbcl resolved the problem for me, and it may for you as well.