From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17608 invoked by alias); 24 Jul 2014 08:25:20 -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 17596 invoked by uid 89); 24 Jul 2014 08:25:19 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,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; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 08:25:17 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hera.aquilenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E6273542; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 10:25:13 +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 jr5n4SNlqXUi; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 10:25:13 +0200 (CEST) Received: from pluto (pluto.bordeaux.inria.fr [193.50.110.57]) by hera.aquilenet.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 447BE1CB4; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 10:25:13 +0200 (CEST) From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) To: Pedro Alves Cc: Doug Evans , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] guile: Compile and install Scheme files References: <877g367peb.fsf@gnu.org> <53D05837.4010100@redhat.com> X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 6 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: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 09:28:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: <53D05837.4010100@redhat.com> (Pedro Alves's message of "Thu, 24 Jul 2014 01:49:59 +0100") Message-ID: <87r41bw4d3.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.130009 (Ma Gnus v0.9) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-SW-Source: 2014-07/txt/msg00621.txt.bz2 Pedro Alves skribis: > On 07/21/2014 03:33 PM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s 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=E2=80=99.