- ;; Work around a bug in CLISP 1999-01-08 #'COMPILE-FILE: CLISP
- ;; mangles relative pathnames passed as :OUTPUT-FILE arguments,
- ;; but works OK with absolute pathnames.
- #+clisp
+ ;; Original comment:
+ ;;
+ ;; Work around a bug in CLISP 1999-01-08 #'COMPILE-FILE: CLISP
+ ;; mangles relative pathnames passed as :OUTPUT-FILE arguments,
+ ;; but works OK with absolute pathnames.
+ ;;
+ ;; following discussion on cmucl-imp 2002-07
+ ;; "COMPILE-FILE-PATHNAME", it would seem safer to deal with
+ ;; absolute pathnames all the time; it is no longer clear that the
+ ;; original behaviour in CLISP was wrong or that the current
+ ;; behaviour is right; and in any case absolutifying the pathname
+ ;; insulates us against changes of behaviour. -- CSR, 2002-08-09