Bug#608741: discrepancy between documentation and config /etc/sbcl.rc

[Darren Hoo]

Package: sbcl
Version: 1:1.0.40-0
Severity: minor

it says in /etc/sbcl.rc:

;;; -*- Lisp -*-
;;; this file gets installed as /etc/sbcl.rc and run on every
;;; invocation of sbcl

but as I tested, It never got run on every invocation of sbcl
from command line.

As we can see from src/toplevel.lisp:

(defun sysinit-pathname ()
  (or (let ((sbcl-homedir (sbcl-homedir-pathname)))
        (when sbcl-homedir
          (probe-file (merge-pathnames "sbclrc" sbcl-homedir))))
      #!+win32
      (merge-pathnames "sbcl\\sbclrc"
                       (sb!win32::get-folder-pathname
                        sb!win32::csidl_common_appdata))
      #!-win32
      "/etc/sbclrc"))

It will only load /etc/sbclrc instead of /etc/sbcl.rc

Actually /etc/sbcl.rc will only got loaded when
common-lisp-controller is trying to install-clc sbcl.
So if /etc/sbcl.rc is intended to be loaded  only during
install-clc time. The documentation above should be updated
to reflect this. Otherwise /etc/sbcl.rc should be renamed
to /etc/sbclrc and install-clc.lisp should also get updated


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=zh_CN.utf8, LC_CTYPE=zh_CN.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages sbcl depends on:
ii  common-lisp-controller        7.6        Common Lisp source and compiler ma
ii  libc6                         2.11.2-7   Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib

Versions of packages sbcl recommends:
ii  binfmt-support                1.2.18     Support for extra binary formats

Versions of packages sbcl suggests:
ii  sbcl-doc                    1:1.0.40-0   Documentation for Steel Bank Commo
ii  sbcl-source                 1:1.0.40-0   Source code files for SBCL
ii  slime                       1:20101220-1 Superior LISP Interaction Mode for

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