[mcclim-devel] Errors installing McClim

[Robert Uhl]

Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.info> writes:
>>>
>>> Well, for the record, compiling C source code is a perfectly
>>> legitimate thing for an ASDF system definition to do (at least when
>>> not in the context of a .deb).
>> 
>> I would disagree. Side effecting .asd files are evil and make other
>> peoples lives very hard. (See
>> e.g. http://www.mail-archive.com/asdf-devel@common-lisp.net/msg00949.html)
>
> I think we are talking at cross-purposes.
>
> It is quite possible to have an .asd file that contains a system with a
> C source file as one of its components.  Loading that system would cause
> the C file to be compiled but is not at all a /side/ effect --- it is an
> intended effect of loading the system, of which the C file is a part.

IMHO, the right thing is for the C file to be compiled _when the ASDF
system is installed_; that object code would then be loaded when the
system is loaded.

-- 
Robert A. Uhl