[Sbcl-devel] pathname-type / pathname-name confusion?

[Andreas F. <as...@bo...>]

Hi all,

I was trying to rewrite the autobenchmarker in maintainable CL instead
of the mess of shell scripts that it is now; obviously, I'm going to
hit a few obstacles related to path names. Among them, something that
looks like a bug to me (this is (TRACE RENAME-FILE) output):

* (rename-file (make-pathname :DIRECTORY '(:ABSOLUTE "home"
                                           "asf" "dl" "arch" "sbcl--main"
                                           "output")
                              :NAME "sbcl.core") 
               (make-pathname :DIRECTORY '(:ABSOLUTE "home" "asf" "hack"
                                           "sb-bench" "build-archive"
		  		           "sbcl" "0.8.14")
                              :NAME "sbcl.core"))
#P"/home/asf/hack/sb-bench/build-archive/sbcl/0.8.14/sbcl.core.core"
#P"/home/asf/dl/arch/sbcl--main/output/sbcl.core"
#P"/home/asf/hack/sb-bench/build-archive/sbcl/0.8.14/sbcl.core.core"

What I'm trying to do is rename .../sbcl.core to
build-archive/sbcl/version/sbcl.core. What I get is
build-archive/sbcl/version/sbcl.core.core.

Is this expected when :type is NIL? Should I start playing with :type?
(I was hoping to avoid that because files will grow a ".gz" suffix
sometimes, and I don't want to handle dreadful :type munging, as well)

Help, (-:
-- 
Andreas Fuchs, <as...@bo...>, as...@ja..., antifuchs