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Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] guile: Compile and install Scheme files
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Doug Evans <xdje42 at gmail dot com>, Ludovic CourtÃs <ludo at gnu dot org>, gdb-patches <gdb-patches at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 10:45:56 +0100
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] guile: Compile and install Scheme files
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On 07/27/2014 05:22 AM, Doug Evans wrote:
> +dnl GDB_TRY_GUILD([SRC-FILE])
> +dnl
> +dnl We precompile the .scm files and install them with gdb, so make sure
> +dnl guild works for this host.
> +dnl The .scm files are precompiled for several reasons:
> +dnl 1) To silence Guile during gdb startup (Guile's auto-compilation output
> +dnl is unnecessarily verbose).
> +dnl 2) Make gdb developers see compilation errors/warnings during the build,
> +dnl and not leave it to later when the user runs gdb.
> +dnl 3) As a convenience for the user, so that one copy of the files is built
> +dnl instead of one copy per user.
> +dnl
Perfect, thanks! It's now crystal clear how this is indeed very
useful, to a passerby reader like me.
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Thanks,
Pedro Alves