Follow-up Comment #6, bug #67997 (group groff): On Wednesday, 4 February 2026 23:03:25 GMT G. Branden Robinson wrote: > Follow-up Comment #3, bug #67997 (group groff): > > At 2026-02-04T17:58:33-0500, Dave wrote: >> Follow-up Comment #2, bug #67997 (group groff): >> >> I'm not Deri, but I think so. I too have periodically noticed the >> mysterious $HOME/_Inline directory. I didn't know till that email >> thread that gropdf was responsible for it, but I was mildly irked at >> whatever kept putting it there. >> >> It was always empty, and I removed it whenever I noticed it. Wherever >> it lives, gropdf would ideally remove it if it's empty at the end of >> the run. There's no point keeping it if it's not storing anything. > > Per the discussion between Bruno and Deri, the inline directory > _shouldn't_ be empty all the time; the point of the cache directory is > to be a persistent cache. My presumption is that Perl compiles the XS > code to an object file only when it has to; otherwise the "optimization" > of having code run on the host's native ISA would be significantly > diminished by the time taken to run a compiler and linker every time the > XS-using program ran. > > Look for dot files in that directory. > > If my half-informed speculations are wrong and the stuff in "_Inline" > _really is_ deleted every time the Perl interpreter exits, then a temp > directory really is the better choice; Bruno and Deri covered that base > too. >
I had a working fix, but I lost it, doing multiple build tests. Will redo
tomorrow.
Cheers
Deri
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