On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, Andy Wingo wrote: > Hi Wolfgang, > > On Mon 21 Mar 2011 01:24, Wolfgang J Moeller <w...@heenes.com> writes: > > >> > (4) compiler: Now that compiling into hidden ~.cache/... directories > >> > has been declared the default behaviour, please cater to those > >> > (like me) who'd always look for their compiled files in the > >> > source directory, by providing a command line switch ... > >> > (E.g. "psyntax" provides a useful "include" macro, the use > >> > of which breaks the "need only recompile when source changed" > >> > assumption. Don't like to "make clean" in that hidden place). > >> > > I'm mostly concerned with interactive use of (un-adorned) "guile" command. > > I have files that use macros defined elsewhere - once I have LOADed > > (and automatically compiled) such files, and change the macros, there's > > [apparently] no way to make guile re-load the source, short of deleting > > the (.cache-d) compiler output. Having to locate that in a far-away place > > is no fun ... so maybe, what I really want is "load-ignoring-cached-go" ? > > I have added a --fresh-auto-compile argument to Guile, or equivalently > GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=fresh. Hopefully that should hack around Guile's > missing dependency tracker for the time being.
Sorry, that's not what I intended. There are already 2 "operational modes": Default, and --no-auto-compile. I'm indeed asking for a "load-ignoring-cached-go" from _within_ both of these modes, not for a third mode that makes for even more variation in what ought to be tested. Something like INCLUDE (which however, doesn't work quite the same as LOAD - cf. my "prelude" example) would be fine ... there's no point in [file-]compiling test programs for [in particular] macros. Of course, currently I do have an emacs dired window open into the .cache directory in order to check for (and delete) compiler output. Didn't you claim that I should not need to do so? Best regards, Wolfgang J. Moeller, Tel. +49 551 47361, wjm<AT>heenes.com 37085 Goettingen, Germany | Disclaimer: No claim intended! http://www.wjmoeller.de/ -+-------- http://www.heenes.com/
