From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 5852 invoked by alias); 24 Jul 2014 00:50:07 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 5837 invoked by uid 89); 24 Jul 2014 00:50:06 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES256-GCM-SHA384 encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 00:50:05 +0000 Received: from int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.23]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s6O0o1gQ031375 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Wed, 23 Jul 2014 20:50:01 -0400 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (ovpn01.gateway.prod.ext.ams2.redhat.com [10.39.146.11]) by int-mx10.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id s6O0nxg7021928; Wed, 23 Jul 2014 20:50:00 -0400 Message-ID: <53D05837.4010100@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 01:07:00 -0000 From: Pedro Alves User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?THVkb3ZpYyBDb3VydMOocw==?= , Doug Evans CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] guile: Compile and install Scheme files References: <877g367peb.fsf@gnu.org> In-Reply-To: <877g367peb.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SW-Source: 2014-07/txt/msg00595.txt.bz2 On 07/21/2014 03:33 PM, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > We install compiled files (1) as a convenience to the users, and (2) > to avoid auto-compilation messages during GDB startup. That makes me (a passerby reader) curious on what kind of convenience is that. :-) I mean, doesn't gdb/guile compile automatically the files if they're not already compiled ? -- Pedro Alves