clisp fasl magic entry
Sam Steingold
sds at podval.org
Fri Jun 27 17:31:04 EEST 2008
Christos Zoulas wrote:
> On Jun 23, 10:32pm, sds at gnu.org (Sam Steingold) wrote:
> -- Subject: clisp fasl magic entry
>
> | I am writing in my official capacity as one of the CLISP maintainers.
> | Since 2004-03-27, clisp fasl files start with
> | (|SYSTEM|::|VERSION|\040'
> | instead of
> | (SYSTEM::VERSION\040'
> | found in the file(1) utility distributed by
> | <http://www.darwinsys.com/file/>.
> | this is not good - clisp fasl files are not properly identified.
> | While it is conceivable that there are 4 year old clisp-compiled fasl
> | files floating around, I think it is extremely unlikely, therefore I
> | propose that the file(1) maintainers replace the current line
> |
> | 0 string (SYSTEM::VERSION\040' CLISP byte-compiled Lisp program text
> | with
> |
> | 0 string (|SYSTEM|::|VERSION|\040' CLISP byte-compiled Lisp program text
> |
> | for your reference:
> | clisp homepage: http://clisp.cons.org
> | clisp MAGIC.add file:
> | http://clisp.cvs.sourceforge.net/*checkout*/clisp/clisp/unix/MAGIC.add
> Thanks, I kept both.
Thanks.
I hope you mark the old version with a message
"CLISP byte-compiled Lisp program text (pre 2004-03-27)"
or something like that
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