[armedbear-devel] ABCL and ASDF

[Mark Evenson]

On 5/23/11 01:13 , Faré wrote:
> Dear ABCL developers,
>
> another bug in ABCL:
>
> (defparameter *wild-file*
>   (make-pathname :name :wild :type :wild :version :wild :directory nil))
>
> (describe *wild-file*)
> (describe (make-pathname :defaults *wild-file*))
>
> Apparently, make-pathname fails to copy the version from the defaults.
> ASDF currently works around this somehow.
>
> PS: in a future ABCL release, please include ASDF 2.015.5 or later.
> Maybe 2.016 will have been released by then.
>
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Filed as ticket [#150].  Fixing the immediate cause in MAKE-PATHNAME 
makes other parts of ASDF which I'm looking into.

[#150]: http://trac.common-lisp.net/armedbear/ticket/150

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