unwanted recompilation with :CFFI-GROVEL-FILE

[JTK]

It turns out to be an intermediate-version SBCL bug, fixed by upgrading to 2.0.3.  

Sorry for this additional email, but I thought it better to close the issue out.



> On Apr 15, 2020, at 12:36 PM, JTK <jetmonk at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Thank you for the suggestion to upgrade ASDF, Stelian.
> 
> I upgraded my builtin SBCL asdf.fasl from 3.3.4 to 3.3.4.1 (git version) with a manual replacement of fasl.
> 
> This 
> 
> - fixes my toy test case on OSX+SBCL (no more unnecessary recompile)
> 
> - does not fix osicat on OSX+SBCL
> 
> - but both osicat and toy test case work in ccl64+OSX with no ASDF fixes needed.
> 
> - but osicat works without reloading in SBCL+Linux64, again without an ASDF upgrade.
> 
> So it looks like it could be some kind of glitch in asdf or OSX SBCL (up to 1.4.9).
> 
> JK
> 
> 
> 
>> On Apr 14, 2020, at 5:40 PM, Stelian Ionescu <sionescu at cddr.org <mailto:sionescu at cddr.org>> wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> Hello,
>>> 
>>> Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask ...
>>> 
>>> I’m using the ‘osicat’ package ( https://common-lisp.net/project/osicat/ <https://common-lisp.net/project/osicat/>   and  https://github.com/osicat/osicat <https://github.com/osicat/osicat> ) in SBCL on OSX.
>>> 
>>> whenever I do ‘(asdf:load-system “osicat”) it seems to recompile the cffi-grovel-files and their dependencies.
>>> 
>>> Is this normal, or is there some way to make it behave like asdf usually does, that it recompiles only when a file has changed?
>> 
>> This sounds very much like a bug in ASDF that was fixed a while ago. I suggest upgrading to the latest version and retrying.
>> 
>> --
>> Stelian Ionescu
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