Package Reference in init file

[philippe@aaii.oz.au (Philippe Repusseau)]

I experimented the similar problem for initialization of software.
The only solution I found was to execute a piece of code which would
test if the package is loaded before any call or to use a form of
the style:
 
 (funcall (intern "MY-FUNCTION" 'unknow-package-at-compilation) args)

in all your code.

example:
 you want to be sure that my-function is correctly loaded from
 file my-file.lisp in package my-package.

 (defun use-my-function (&rest args)
   (if (null (packagep 'my-package))
       (load "my-file.lisp"))
   (funcall (intern "MY-FUNCTION" 'my-package) args))

 I am not sure it is the only way to do it but it works and it is portable.

Philippe.