As we discussed, I'd write FASL concatenation support for ABCL. I'm nearly done, however I'm running into a snag caused by ASDF:

Normally, a file "package.lisp" is compiled into a fasl "package.abcl" which is basically a zip with at least one entry: "package._". The "._" file contains instructions for loading the fasl and may contain references to other files in the same zip.

My FASL concatenation code currently uses the assumption that the "._" file has exactly the same name as the enclosing package. However, FASLs generated using ASDF violate that assumption: the ._ file in the fasl isn't called "package._" but it's called "package-ASDF_TMP._".

How does ABCL know about the suffix when ASDF is loading the FASL "package.abcl" with the suffixed file in it in the regular situation?

Bye,

Erik.