On 1/8/16 Jan 8 -11:59 AM, 73budden . wrote:
Quote from the manual: "But for code that you are actively developing, debugging, or otherwise modifying, you should use load-system, so ASDF will pick on your modifications and transitively re-build the modified files and everything that depends on them. "
What does "everything that depends on them" mean?
I have sys1.asd: (asdf:defsystem :sys1 :serial t :components ((:file "sys1-file1"))) ; EOF
and sys2.asd (asdf:defsystem :sys2 :serial t :depends-on (:sys1) :components ((:file "sys2-file2"))) ; EOF
I do (asdf:load-system :sys2), then I touch sys1-file1.lisp, then I do (asdf:load-system :sys1)
:sys2 does not get recompiled.
This is what I always knew and expected to see, but, according to manual, it should have been recompiled, as :sys2 depends on :sys1, and, hence, from the modified sys1-file1.lisp.
Now I don't know is this a "misbug" in asdf or a defeciency in the manual. If this is a misbug, another question arises: is there a "canonical" way to reload all systems that are currently loaded into the image and sources of which have changed since last load?
This is a lack of clarity in the manual. What was intended was something more like: "...and transitively re-build the modified files and other system files that rely upon them." "Everything" is wrong.
I'm open to suggestions for re-wording this, or I can have a whack at it myself.
Best, r