One further data-point, not immediately related to the recompile spam, but to the proposed work-around when working within the guix repository:
The suggestion was that the default workflow should be to compile the scheme files using `make`. That does avoid the recompile spam, but: - adding a scheme file requires going through 1. edit Makefile.am 2. call bootstrap 3. call configure, remembering the mystery localstatedir argument 4. call make, waiting through documentation and nix-daemon compiles - I get random mysterious documentation builds throughout. E.g. just now: $ make make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory '/home/rob/guix' Making all in po/guix make[2]: Entering directory '/home/rob/guix/po/guix' make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/rob/guix/po/guix' Making all in po/packages make[2]: Entering directory '/home/rob/guix/po/packages' make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/rob/guix/po/packages' make[2]: Entering directory '/home/rob/guix' Updating ./doc/version.texi Updating ./doc/version-de.texi Updating ./doc/version-es.texi Updating ./doc/version-fr.texi Updating ./doc/version-ru.texi Updating ./doc/version-zh_CN.texi CXX nix/nix-daemon/guix_daemon-nix-daemon.o […] CXXLD guix-daemon GEN scripts/guix Compiling Scheme modules... [ 12%] LOAD guix/build-system/elm.scm ;;; note: source file ./guix/config.scm ;;; newer than compiled /home/rob/guix/guix/config.go ;;; note: source file ./guix/config.scm ;;; newer than compiled /home/rob/guix/guix/config.go [ 25%] LOAD guix/build/elm-build-system.scm guix/build/elm-build-system.scm:127:1: missing closing parenthesis ## call make again with no edits $ make make all-recursive make[1]: Entering directory '/home/rob/guix' Making all in po/guix make[2]: Entering directory '/home/rob/guix/po/guix' make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/rob/guix/po/guix' Making all in po/packages make[2]: Entering directory '/home/rob/guix/po/packages' make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/rob/guix/po/packages' make[2]: Entering directory '/home/rob/guix' MAKEINFO doc/guix.info MAKEINFO doc/guix.de.info MAKEINFO doc/guix.es.info MAKEINFO doc/guix.fr.info MAKEINFO doc/guix.ru.info ./doc/guix.ru.texi:913: warning: accent command `@,' must not be followed by whitespace Wide character in warn at /gnu/store/yrgwwr35l01qvnlqgr6d4wbwky3b1d74-profile/bin/makeinfo line 720. ./doc/guix.ru.texi:3881: warning: `.' or `,' must follow @xref, not д MAKEINFO doc/guix.zh_CN.info Compiling Scheme modules... [ 12%] LOAD guix/build-system/elm.scm ;;; note: source file ./guix/config.scm ;;; newer than compiled /home/rob/guix/guix/config.go ;;; note: source file ./guix/config.scm ;;; newer than compiled /home/rob/guix/guix/config.go [ 25%] LOAD guix/build/elm-build-system.scm guix/build/elm-build-system.scm:127:1: missing closing parenthesis Some deprecated features have been used. Set the environment variable GUILE_WARN_DEPRECATED to "detailed" and rerun the program to get more information. Set it to "no" to suppress this message. make[2]: *** [Makefile:5765: make-go] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory '/home/rob/guix' make[1]: *** [Makefile:4836: all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/rob/guix' make: *** [Makefile:3226: all] Error 2 Let me know if these should be considered separate bugs worth filing.
