ASDF cannot be loaded from source

[Juanjo Garcia-Ripoll]

ASDF now uses CLINES / C-INLINE and thus it can not be loaded from source in ECL. The patch attached fixes this. It uses the function SYS:GETUID which is exported by ECL since today (2010/06/30)

[Faré (fahree)]

Makes sense. Do we want that in a 2.0 release or just for 2.1 ?

Also, I admit in retrospect that security issues made the $UID thing moot, unless we also can check that the directory belongs to the user (see DSA 811-2 on common-lisp-controller). I'm hesitating about removing the feature from ASDF altogether, though I don't know if I want to do that for 2.0 or 2.1. A different approach would be to somehow find an extensible API such that something layered on top of ASDF could add the feature, though there would be an obvious bootstrap problem about how this layer is to be found before ASDF itself is configured.

Sigh.

[Juanjo Garcia-Ripoll (worm)]

I think this is a minor change that can be introduced ASAP. It is related to complaints in the ECL mailing list and I myself added it our copy of ASDF (based on yesterday night's git repo).

[Faré (fahree)]

Committed to 2.108. Not in the 2.0 branch (yet).

Note I had to use si::getuid, or it borks on older versions of ECL.