Running install.sh with SBCL 2.6.1 on macOS fail

[pierre-rouleau]

I downloaded the install.sh script in a local directory, made it executable and executed it manually. It failed as shown below:

> 0,et:0.024s,L2,0j [~/my/dvo/common-lisp-tools-repos/quicklisp/ql-https]
bash$ ./install.sh
Downloading quicklisp metadata...
Downloading quicklisp client...
Cloning ql-https...
Cloning into '/Users/roup/common-lisp/ql-https'...
remote: Enumerating objects: 222, done.
remote: Counting objects: 100% (37/37), done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (29/29), done.
remote: Total 222 (delta 9), reused 18 (delta 5), pack-reused 185 (from 1)
Receiving objects: 100% (222/222), 47.18 KiB | 1.31 MiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (104/104), done.
Running setup code...
This is SBCL 2.6.1, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.

SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
BSD-style licenses.  See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
distribution for more information.
* ("ASDF" "asdf" "UIOP" "uiop")
* 
; file: /Users/roup/quicklisp/quicklisp/http.lisp
; in: DEFUN PROCESS-HEADER
;     (ERROR "Unable to process HTTP header")
; 
; note: deleting unreachable code

; file: /Users/roup/quicklisp/quicklisp/dist.lisp
; in: DEFVAR *INITARG-CASE-CONVERTER*
;     #'STRING-DOWNCASE
; 
; note: deleting unreachable code
; 
; compilation unit finished
;   printed 2 notes
T
* ; compiling file "/Users/roup/common-lisp/ql-https/ql-https.lisp" (written 13 FEB 2026 05:20:11 PM):

; wrote /Users/roup/.cache/common-lisp/sbcl-2.6.1-macosx-arm64/Users/roup/common-lisp/ql-https/ql-https-tmpUX5S4ADN.fasl
; compilation finished in 0:00:00.005
; compiling file "/Users/roup/common-lisp/ql-https/content-hash.lisp" (written 13 FEB 2026 05:20:11 PM):

; wrote /Users/roup/.cache/common-lisp/sbcl-2.6.1-macosx-arm64/Users/roup/common-lisp/ql-https/content-hash-tmp10401X32.fasl
; compilation finished in 0:00:00.007
T
* NIL
* T
* 
debugger invoked on a SB-PCL::NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD-ERROR in thread
#<THREAD tid=259 "main thread" RUNNING {70051804A3}>:
  There is no applicable method for the generic function
    #<STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION QL-DIST:PROJECT-NAME (1)>
  when called with arguments
    (NIL).
See also:
  The ANSI Standard, Section 7.6.6

Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:EXIT) to exit from SBCL.

restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
  0: [RETRY] Retry calling the generic function.
  1: [ABORT] Exit debugger, returning to top level.

((:METHOD NO-APPLICABLE-METHOD (T)) #<STANDARD-GENERIC-FUNCTION QL-DIST:PROJECT-NAME (1)> NIL) [fast-method]
0] 

As I'm new to this, is there something I should be looking at?

[rudolfochrist]

Thank you for reporting this. I fixed this in master. Please try again.

[pierre-rouleau]

@rudolfochrist THanks. I tried again and the script completed properly.

That's my first step. I'll need to fully understand how this works, what files are modified. When I ran it SBCL was the Common Lisp selected by my environment and 3 files were affected as far as I can tell
~/quicklisp
~/common-lisp
~/.sbclrc

I want to be able to use various Common Lips systems in various environments and wherever one is using Quicklisp I want it to go through the proxy. I will be reading more from the project to learn more. Thanks again for the quick reply!

[rudolfochrist]

.sbclrc is, like the name suggest, the startup/rc file of SBCL only.

This is what I do:

I have a rc.lisp file in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/common-lisp/ that contains all startup/initialisation for all Common Lisp implementations. Then I symlink each implementation's startup file to the rc.lisp file

ln -s $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/common-lisp/rc.lisp ~/.sbclrc          # for sbcl
ln -s $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/common-lisp/rc.lisp ~/.ccl-init.lisp   # for ccl
etc..

My rc.lisp

[pierre-rouleau]

Thanks, I'll look at that and will probably do something similar I'm doing it in the context of using stand-alone Common Lisp implementations but also through Roswell.