Re: [PATCH] guile: Compile and install Scheme files.

Doug Evans
2014-07-19T14:57:13Z

On Sat, Jul 19, 2014 at 2:10 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> 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’ll add a comment for that.
>
> Basically, Guile automatically compiles source files when it cannot find
> a pre-compiled file, but it’s just more convenient for the user if
> compiled files are installed in the first place.

I think the high order bit for the task at hand is silencing Guile
when gdb starts.
One hacky thought I had was redirecting stdout/err while we're
initializing Guile. 1/2 :-)
Long term, I think Guile changes are needed, but we need something in
the interim.