Predefined Search-Lists

These search-lists are initialized from the Unix environment or when Lisp was built:

default:

The current directory at startup.

home:

The user's home directory.

library:

The CMU Common Lisp `lib/' directory (CMUCLLIB environment variable.)

path:

The Unix command path (PATH environment variable.)

target:

The root of the tree where CMU Common Lisp was compiled.

It can be useful to redefine these search-lists, for example, `library:' can be augmented to allow logical pathname translations to be located, and `target:' can be redefined to point to where CMU Common Lisp system sources are locally installed.