Understood. And thanks again!
-jm On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 3:55 PM, Faré <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 3:40 PM, John Morrison > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Well, I think I found the thing that triggers the problem - even if I > didn't > > really find the problem itself. The :clim defsystem defines a dependency > > that reaches into one of its components - the Goatee/presentation-history > > file. (Maybe the "huh?" comment in the asd file should've clued me in a > > little before now, eh?) My guess (based on a later filesystem date on > the > > file presentation-history as compared to the other file components of > > goatee-core) is that recompiling the file as a part of clim later than > and > > as opposed to goatee-core made goatee appear to have changed, forcing > > recompiiling of parents... Then things got weird. > > > > When I put the #+NIL in the obvious place (see below), things work as > > expected. (This with ASDF 3.0.2.4 - haven't check the older versions > > yet...) > > > > Does anybody have any clue why this might have been this way? It seems > to > > be wrong in spirit (recompiling files of another component from outside > any > > operations on that specific component), and clearly raised the eyebrows > of > > at least one McCLIM maintainer... In any event, thanks for the > > troubleshooting clues, guys, and sorry for any unintentional casting of > > aspersions... > > > ASDF 1 (and 2) failed to propagate timestamps from dependencies to > dependents, and a file could appear twice, in two different systems, > and not cause a dependency loop. > > ASDF 3 correctly propagates timestamps from dependencies to > dependents. If a file appears twice, the uncompiled or out-of-date > first occurrence causes everything that follows to be recompiled, > including, later, the second occurrence, which will have a later > timestamp, that next time around, will mean the first occurrence has > been compiled after everything in the dependency loop. > > Conclusion: don't introduce dependency loops. They were always a bug, > just one that was previously hidden by a deep bug in ASDF itself. > > Don't #+NIL the bastard, just plain kill it. > > —♯ƒ • François-René ÐVB Rideau •Reflection&Cybernethics• > http://fare.tunes.org > Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff > life is made of. — Benjamin Franklin >
