[closure-devel] Use of (make-pathname ... :type :unspecific)

[Zach Beane]

David Lichteblau <david at lichteblau.com> writes:

> Quoting Zach Beane (xach at xach.com):
>> David Lichteblau <david at lichteblau.com> writes:
>> 
>> > Quoting Zach Beane (xach at xach.com):
>> > [...]
>> >> What's the :type :unspecific for? It seems to work on CLISP (and all
>> >> other implementations I tried) without it; is it a precaution against a
>> >> *default-pathname-defaults* that apparently has a value for :type?
>> >
>> > I don't know.  Here's the snippet from the patch submitter, can you make
>> > sense of it?  Perhaps only very old asdf2 has this problem?
>> 
>> Yes, that looks like it's the case to me. ASDF2 no longer behaves like
>> he describes.
>
> Does this change work for you on clisp?
>
[snip]

CLISP compiles it without complaint with that change.

Zach