From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] guile: Compile and install Scheme files
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:28:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r41bw4d3.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53D05837.4010100@redhat.com> (Pedro Alves's message of "Thu, 24 Jul 2014 01:49:59 +0100")
Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> skribis:
> 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 ?
Yes it does. But it does it for each user. Having them installed
system-wide already avoids that (same as for .elc and the likes.)
Compiling them also allows the GDB hacker to see the compiler warnings,
which is nice too. :-)
Ludo’.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-24 8:25 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 [this message]
2014-07-24 15:41 ` Doug Evans
2014-07-27 4:23 ` Doug Evans
2014-07-28 11:34 ` Pedro Alves
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