--compile fails with "In function PATHNAME, the value of the only argument is T..."

When I try to compile a file

ecl --compile Test.lisp

I get

An error occurred during initialization:

In function PATHNAME, the value of the only argument is T which is not of the expected type (OR FILE_STREAM STRING PATHNAME)

This occurs on TERMUX (Android). It does not occur on my desktop Gentoo system.

What could be the reason for this fault? Many thanks for a hint, Helmut

I forgot to mention that strace shows several thousands(!) of rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK or SIG_SETMASK before ecl dies.

On Android bytecodes compiler comes first. It seems, that we have a bug with --compile option used with it enabled. Steps to reproduce on "normal" Linux box:

➜  ~ touch file.lisp
➜  ~ ecl --compile file.lisp 
;;; Loading #P"/home/jack/Pulpit/local/lib/ecl-16.1.3/cmp.fas"
;;;
;;; Compiling file.lisp.
;;; OPTIMIZE levels: Safety=2, Space=0, Speed=3, Debug=0
;;;
;;; End of Pass 1.
;;; Finished compiling file.lisp.
;;;
➜  ~ ecl --eval "(ext::install-bytecodes-compiler)" --compile file.lisp
An error occurred during initialization:
In function PATHNAME, the value of the only argument is
  T
which is not of the expected type (OR FILE-STREAM STRING PATHNAME).

Trying to use the C compiler on Android/Termux doesn't succeed either.

(ext:install-c-ompiler) ;; OK (compile-file "Test.lisp" :system-p t) ;; OK (c:build-fasl "Test" :lisp-files '("Test.o")) ;; FAILS

with

Condition of type: CASE-FAILURE :FASL fell through ECASE expression Wanted one of (:PROGRAM :STATIC-LIBRARY).

On the other hand

(c:build-program "Test" :lisp-files '("Test.o")) ;; SUCCEEDS !

the problem you describe is understandable with C compiler.

You've build ECL without dlopen funcionality, what means that ECL can't load back shared object. FASL's build by C compiler are shared objects loaded by dlopen. For description see:

https://common-lisp.net/project/ecl/static/ecldoc/Extensions.html#System-building

I'm keeping the issue open due to bytecodes compiler problem wrt pathname.

changed milestone to %ECL 16.2.0