From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>,
gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] guile: Compile and install Scheme files
Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 15:41:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADPb22S+9jh+ff9H=LqvKPbX7XiwG0fi9KkWPM1SDmrVoa3GhA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r41bw4d3.fsf@gnu.org>
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:25 AM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> 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. :-)
Indeed! :-)
I'll add comments on these to the patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-24 15:35 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 [this message]
2014-07-27 4:23 ` Doug Evans
2014-07-28 11:34 ` Pedro Alves
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