From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24659 invoked by alias); 19 Jul 2014 13:10:44 -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 24632 invoked by uid 89); 19 Jul 2014 13:10:43 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,SPF_HELO_PASS,SPF_SOFTFAIL autolearn=no version=3.3.2 X-HELO: hera.aquilenet.fr Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr (HELO hera.aquilenet.fr) (141.255.128.1) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 13:10:40 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hera.aquilenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F01B34C2; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 15:10:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from hera.aquilenet.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (hera.aquilenet.fr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id IZfX5oqGUPsA; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 15:10:37 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pluto (global-1-18.nat.csx.cam.ac.uk [131.111.184.18]) by hera.aquilenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D1ADC31E0; Sat, 19 Jul 2014 15:10:36 +0200 (CEST) From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) To: Pedro Alves Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Doug Evans Subject: Re: [PATCH] guile: Compile and install Scheme files. In-Reply-To: <53C4F7A7.9070003@redhat.com> (Pedro Alves's message of "Tue, 15 Jul 2014 10:43:03 +0100") References: <87bntnl0wt.fsf@gnu.org> <53C4F7A7.9070003@redhat.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.130009 (Ma Gnus v0.9) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 1 Thermidor an 222 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 83C4 F8E5 10A3 3B4C 5BEA D15D 77DD 95E2 EA52 ECF4 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2014 14:57:00 -0000 Message-ID: <871tthh4uf.fsf@gnu.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-SW-Source: 2014-07/txt/msg00520.txt.bz2 Pedro Alves skribis: > Can we have a a comment somewhere (either in the sources, or in > the commit log), of _why_ we do this? E.g., is this for > performance, or for something else? When it is safe? Etc. Agreed, we=E2=80=99ll add a comment for that. Basically, Guile automatically compiles source files when it cannot find a pre-compiled file, but it=E2=80=99s just more convenient for the user if compiled files are installed in the first place. Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.