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