On 10/12/11 Oct 12 -11:34 AM, Andreas Fuchs wrote:
On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 09:06, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll juanjose.garciaripoll@googlemail.com wrote:
I apologize in advance for the stupid newbie question that follows. I have the two systems below. When I change a file in cl-farm, it recompiles it, but when I demand loading of cl-farm-test again, ASDF does not recompile it, even though its dependency has changed. Why? Is this expected.
It is normal behavior for ASDF: Recompilation will only ever be triggered for components in the same module. (I'm not saying it's a good thing!)
That's actually not correct. ASDF fixed part of this problem. Cross-module changes DO trigger recompilation in ASDF 2. But cross SYSTEM changes do not.
There are a few architectural reasons for this (I have only a vague recollection about them, but they're there )-:). I believe there's not much that can be done about it, save rewriting your systems (asdf-dependency-grovel was made in part for this reason - to merge systems/modules into one), or rewriting asdf.
You don't need to do this rewriting any more.
best, r