From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 12189 invoked by alias); 28 Jul 2014 09:46:05 -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 12164 invoked by uid 89); 28 Jul 2014 09:46:02 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.2 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; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 09:46:02 +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 s6S9jw7G023362 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 28 Jul 2014 05:45:58 -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 s6S9jub8002222; Mon, 28 Jul 2014 05:45:57 -0400 Message-ID: <53D61BD4.7060806@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 11:34:00 -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: Doug Evans , =?UTF-8?B?THVkb3ZpYyBDb3VydMOocw==?= , gdb-patches Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] guile: Compile and install Scheme files References: <877g367peb.fsf@gnu.org> <53D05837.4010100@redhat.com> <87r41bw4d3.fsf@gnu.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2014-07/txt/msg00692.txt.bz2 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