Thank you for the suggestion to upgrade ASDF, Stelian. I upgraded my builtin SBCL asdf.fasl from 3.3.4 to 3.3.4.1 (git version) with a manual replacement of fasl.
This - fixes my toy test case on OSX+SBCL (no more unnecessary recompile) - does not fix osicat on OSX+SBCL - but both osicat and toy test case work in ccl64+OSX with no ASDF fixes needed. - but osicat works without reloading in SBCL+Linux64, again without an ASDF upgrade. So it looks like it could be some kind of glitch in asdf or OSX SBCL (up to 1.4.9). JK > On Apr 14, 2020, at 5:40 PM, Stelian Ionescu <sione...@cddr.org> wrote: > >> >> Hello, >> >> Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask ... >> >> I’m using the ‘osicat’ package ( https://common-lisp.net/project/osicat/ >> <https://common-lisp.net/project/osicat/> and >> https://github.com/osicat/osicat <https://github.com/osicat/osicat> ) in >> SBCL on OSX. >> >> whenever I do ‘(asdf:load-system “osicat”) it seems to recompile the >> cffi-grovel-files and their dependencies. >> >> Is this normal, or is there some way to make it behave like asdf usually >> does, that it recompiles only when a file has changed? > > This sounds very much like a bug in ASDF that was fixed a while ago. I > suggest upgrading to the latest version and retrying. > > -- > Stelian Ionescu
