diff --git a/asdf.asd b/asdf.asd
index 49873e2b04d7560661f6405e2479773efe90f8a9..e7d7a538930cb364f387e49228caefb2fe2ba560 100644
--- a/asdf.asd
+++ b/asdf.asd
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
   :licence "MIT"
   :description "Another System Definition Facility"
   :long-description "ASDF builds Common Lisp software organized into defined systems."
-  :version "2.019.8" ;; to be automatically updated by bin/bump-revision
+  :version "2.019.9" ;; to be automatically updated by bin/bump-revision
   :depends-on ()
   :components
   ((:file "asdf")
diff --git a/asdf.lisp b/asdf.lisp
index 6c195bf39073694e095e2f00db58cb78eee713a8..2c03e078f5096e0d1de28dde1e6afd15e4562be8 100644
--- a/asdf.lisp
+++ b/asdf.lisp
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 ;;; -*- mode: Common-Lisp; Base: 10 ; Syntax: ANSI-Common-Lisp -*-
-;;; This is ASDF 2.019.8: Another System Definition Facility.
+;;; This is ASDF 2.019.9: Another System Definition Facility.
 ;;;
 ;;; Feedback, bug reports, and patches are all welcome:
 ;;; please mail to <asdf-devel@common-lisp.net>.
@@ -61,7 +61,8 @@
   (setf excl::*autoload-package-name-alist*
         (remove "asdf" excl::*autoload-package-name-alist*
                 :test 'equalp :key 'car)) ; need that BEFORE any mention of package ASDF as below
-  #+ecl (unless (member :ecl-bytecmp *features*) (require :cmp))
+  #+ecl (defun use-ecl-byte-compiler-p () (and (member :ecl-bytecmp *features*) t))
+  #+ecl (unless (use-ecl-byte-compiler-p) (require :cmp))
   #+gcl ;; Debian's GCL 2.7 has bugs with compiling multiple-value stuff, but can run ASDF 2.011
   (when (or (< system::*gcl-major-version* 2) ;; GCL 2.6 fails to fully compile ASDF at all
             (and (= system::*gcl-major-version* 2)
@@ -107,7 +108,7 @@
          ;; "2.345.6" would be a development version in the official upstream
          ;; "2.345.0.7" would be your seventh local modification of official release 2.345
          ;; "2.345.6.7" would be your seventh local modification of development version 2.345.6
-         (asdf-version "2.019.8")
+         (asdf-version "2.019.9")
          (existing-asdf (find-class 'component nil))
          (existing-version *asdf-version*)
          (already-there (equal asdf-version existing-version)))
@@ -4212,9 +4213,6 @@ with a different configuration, so the configuration would be re-read then."
 (progn
   (setf *compile-op-compile-file-function* 'ecl-compile-file)
 
-  (defun use-ecl-byte-compiler-p ()
-    (member :ecl-bytecmp *features*))
-
   (defun ecl-compile-file (input-file &rest keys &key &allow-other-keys)
     (if (use-ecl-byte-compiler-p)
         (apply 'compile-file* input-file keys)