[asdf-devel] Dependency does not trigger recompilation

[Andreas Fuchs]

On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 10:12, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info> wrote:
> On 10/12/11 Oct 12 -11:34 AM, Andreas Fuchs wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 09:06, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
>> <juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> I apologize in advance for the stupid newbie question that follows.
>>> I have the two systems below. When I change a file in cl-farm, it recompiles
>>> it, but when I demand loading of cl-farm-test again, ASDF does not recompile
>>> it, even though its dependency has changed. Why? Is this expected.
>>
>> It is normal behavior for ASDF: Recompilation will only ever be
>> triggered for components in the same module. (I'm not saying it's a
>> good thing!)
>
> That's actually not correct.  ASDF fixed part of this problem.
> Cross-module changes DO trigger recompilation in ASDF 2.  But cross
> SYSTEM changes do not.

Huh, ok, then I was operating on outdated information. Last I looked,
it was modules. In that case - nice work!

Thanks for the correction,
-- 
Andreas Fuchs, (http://|im:asf@|mailto:asf@)boinkor.net, antifuchs