unwanted recompilation with :CFFI-GROVEL-FILE

[JTK]

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?

I know that this issue has 3 components (asdf, cffi, and osicat), but I thought I’d first check whether this is an unavoidable feature of using grovel files.
If not,  I can try to fix osicat.   

Here are some of the compilation messages: https://pastebin.com/GKArFCWc <https://pastebin.com/GKArFCWc> 

JK



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