Re: Bug in compile-file

>>>>> "Fred" == Fred Gilham <gilham@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Fred> Hello,

    Fred> It looks like there's a bug in COMPILE-FILE.

[snip]

    Fred> * (compile-file "junk/holly" :output-file "junk/junk-bin/holly.x86f")

    Fred> Type-error in KERNEL::OBJECT-NOT-SIMPLE-STRING-ERROR-HANDLER:
    Fred>    NIL is not of type SIMPLE-STRING
    Fred>    [Condition of type TYPE-ERROR]

[snip]

    Fred> 0: (LISP::PICK-BACKUP-NAME 1 NIL)[:EXTERNAL]
    Fred> 1: (LISP::FD-OPEN #p"junk/junk/junk-bin/holly.x86f"
    Fred>                   :OUTPUT
    Fred>                   #<unavailable-arg>
    Fred>                   T
    Fred>                   ...)

I think this is caused by changes in compile-file-pathname that were
made a some months ago to make it comply with ANSI.  I think the
output file was supposed to be merged with the input file.

So you need to leave off the "junk" part of the output-file to get it
to do what you want.

Ray


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