[asdf-devel] Recompiling SBCL contribs

[Faré]

On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Zach Beane <xach at xach.com> wrote:
> Faré <fahree at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 2:43 PM, Zach Beane <xach at xach.com> wrote:
>>> I've saved an executable SBCL image that includes asdf and calls
>>> load-system. If the system it's loading depends-on sbcl contribs,
>>> e.g. sb-bsd-sockets, it is recompiling the contrib sources.
>>>
>>> What causes contribs to get recompiled? Is there an easy way to inhibit
>>> it?
>>>
>> Which versions of SBCL and ASDF are you using?
>> Are you using some ASDF options such as enabling deferred-warnings?
>
> I am using SBCL 1.1.8.30+, and ASDF 3.0.3. I am initializing output
> translations with something like:
>
>   (initialize-output-translations
>    '(:output-translations
>      (t "/path/to/fasls/")
>     :inherit-configuration))
>
Weird. Can you do the following:
(1) use (asdf:traverse 'asdf:load-op :your-system)
 to identify the first few things that get recompiled
(2) use (asdf:input-files 'asdf:whichever-op '("sb-whatever" "component-name"))
 and (asdf:output-files 'asdf:whichever-op '("sb-whatever" "component-name"))
 to see what are the files involved, and
(3) use ls -l to check the timestamps of all said files

One thing that could have gone wrong is that somehow
during your SBCL installation, timestamps were not preserved,
and some .lisp file got a timestamp later than the corresponding .fasl.

Another thing that could have gone wrong is that somehow
your output-translations configuration fails to specially treat
the sbcl contribs.

Or then again, it could be a bug in ASDF that I missed because I've
been using for months the "no ASDF for contribs at runtime" patch
that was just included in the latest SBCL release. But I'm pretty sure
I faced that issue earlier and that it was working
when I released ASDF 2.27.

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