From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: "Doug Evans" <xdje42@gmail.com>, "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>,
gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] guile: Compile and install Scheme files
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 11:34:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53D61BD4.7060806@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3r417o2hh.fsf@sspiff.org>
On 07/27/2014 05:22 AM, Doug Evans wrote:
> +dnl GDB_TRY_GUILD([SRC-FILE])
> +dnl
> +dnl We precompile the .scm files and install them with gdb, so make sure
> +dnl guild works for this host.
> +dnl The .scm files are precompiled for several reasons:
> +dnl 1) To silence Guile during gdb startup (Guile's auto-compilation output
> +dnl is unnecessarily verbose).
> +dnl 2) Make gdb developers see compilation errors/warnings during the build,
> +dnl and not leave it to later when the user runs gdb.
> +dnl 3) As a convenience for the user, so that one copy of the files is built
> +dnl instead of one copy per user.
> +dnl
Perfect, thanks! It's now crystal clear how this is indeed very
useful, to a passerby reader like me.
--
Thanks,
Pedro Alves
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-28 9:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-21 14:12 Doug Evans
2014-07-21 15:45 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-24 1:07 ` Pedro Alves
2014-07-24 9:28 ` Ludovic Courtès
2014-07-24 15:41 ` Doug Evans
2014-07-27 4:23 ` Doug Evans
2014-07-28 11:34 ` Pedro Alves [this message]
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