[Axiom-developer] Current directory at startup

[Gregory Vanuxem]

Hello,

I have just built wh-sandbox and found a _serious_ bug. It's present in
Build-improvement too (and probably Gold). Last time, I uploaded a
binary version of Axiom I made an error, I added the function 'reroot'
just before the uploading and this function is wrong, at least in the
version on which I'm working. The problem is that at startup the
"current directory" is incorrectly set and if you compile a file it will
compile the one in your home directory instead of the one in the current
directory (if the "basenames" are identical). This issue can mess up the
build process (it happened with build-improvement (version 395)).

There is another problem with file (fixed in wh-sandbox): probe-file no
longer works on directory. Tim I think you should take care of these
issues if you plan to release a new version of Gold, several persons
already reported problems related to this one (with fixes too I
believe).

Greg

PS: See reroot (bookvol5), make-input-filename (nlib.lisp) etc...