From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31644 invoked by alias); 24 Jul 2014 15:35:45 -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 31616 invoked by uid 89); 24 Jul 2014 15:35:40 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RP_MATCHES_RCVD,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 X-HELO: mail-vc0-f173.google.com Received: from mail-vc0-f173.google.com (HELO mail-vc0-f173.google.com) (209.85.220.173) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with (AES128-SHA encrypted) ESMTPS; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 15:35:35 +0000 Received: by mail-vc0-f173.google.com with SMTP id hy10so5143745vcb.4 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 08:35:32 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=c4OJhMME9Nee6zZGBD+SfN3MoPBQJMSFAOb5VL5fZdQ=; b=SYsTW/dfxoL+mM5SsF8SlrdWNZTaSM+yu/RaWDK9VdDbG5I609RfuUqp1M2EbbTD7h 1yHQ2Bj7ozfegiXMwOg3cttN9USjW5fpe3jebkglcN9FSGFCTjmYDphu5bywPMtY6xEA DKN0S9e6A56xuo70HLJvxrkH3lP8Xhc7jE2nt2muhsfNzQIk5SFtytnPFLzfSvUEoFPq XEQxcuJuLAUaPV7Z/a9z6+5Gwha4++AQBFv0vJoLTBKyGcXayzxK97/prT3Nq7T78W07 qgk9usCjMdDp0VaNiv129jNnGRM9tAccT1o75KTga6WN1rGFMj9IibuzXbl3pI021VQ2 XAsw== X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnUTuQSCp18Af+EYUS3myTx6a+ccJ7G6/GhMu3ntYJBgmoS7Pb7yA/2SFiXbI56GL+HBSc1 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.52.53.135 with SMTP id b7mr11105841vdp.67.1406216131546; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 08:35:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.52.28.233 with HTTP; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 08:35:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87r41bw4d3.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877g367peb.fsf@gnu.org> <53D05837.4010100@redhat.com> <87r41bw4d3.fsf@gnu.org> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 15:41:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] guile: Compile and install Scheme files From: Doug Evans To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: Pedro Alves , gdb-patches Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2014-07/txt/msg00644.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 1:25 AM, Ludovic Court=C3=A8s wrote: > 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. :-) Indeed! :-) I'll add comments on these to the patch.