[Ecls-list] ecl -load /dev/null won't work

[Faré]

Using clbuild on linux amd64 after I added the proper LD_LIBRARY_PATH
magic in clbuild, I could run the ecl it compiled, but I get

$ ./clbuild --implementation ecl lisp
An error occurred during initialization:
Filesystem error with pathname #P"/dev/null".
Either
 1) the file does not exist, or
 2) we are not allow to access the file, or
 3) the pathname points to a broken symbolic link..
$ ls -l /dev/null
0 crw-rw-rw- 1 root root 1, 3 2009-11-08 18:58 /dev/null

using bash -x ./clbuild --implementation ecl lisp I see that it's
calling ecl with the equivalent of
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=~/cl/clbuild/target/lib
/home/fare/cl/clbuild/target/bin/ecl -load /dev/null -eval '(require
:asdf)' -eval '(setq asdf:*central-registry*
'\''(#p"/home/fare/cl/clbuild/systems/"))' -eval nil

When I replicate this without the -load /dev/null everything runs fine.

So -load is being confused about /dev/null being a device and not a
regular file, but otherwise will work correctly.

It would be nice it this were fixed on the ECL side; but if it's a
documented limitation, then I'll create a patch for clbuild to
accommodate for it.

PS: the diff to get clbuild to that point was
diff -rN -u old-clbuild/clbuild new-clbuild/clbuild
--- old-clbuild/clbuild 2009-11-09 06:30:03.304573316 -0500
+++ new-clbuild/clbuild 2009-11-09 06:30:03.312573248 -0500
@@ -164,6 +164,7 @@
             ;;
         ecl)
             export DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH="${target_dir}/lib:$DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH"
+            export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${target_dir}/lib:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH"
             export ECL="${target_dir}/bin/ecl"
             ;;
         ccl)

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