[asdf-devel] Dependency does not trigger recompilation

[Robert Goldman]

On 10/12/11 Oct 12 -12:41 PM, Andreas Fuchs wrote:
> 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 Huh, ok, then I was operating on outdated information.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,

At the expense of self-advertising, see the paper that Faré and I wrote
about the new state of ASDF:

http://rpgoldman.real-time.com/papers/ilc2010-asdf.pdf

Cheers,
r