It turns out to be an intermediate-version SBCL bug, fixed by upgrading to 2.0.3.
Sorry for this additional email, but I thought it better to close the issue out.
On Apr 15, 2020, at 12:36 PM, JTK jetmonk@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you for the suggestion to upgrade ASDF, Stelian.
I upgraded my builtin SBCL asdf.fasl from 3.3.4 to 3.3.4.1 (git version) with a manual replacement of fasl.
This
fixes my toy test case on OSX+SBCL (no more unnecessary recompile)
does not fix osicat on OSX+SBCL
but both osicat and toy test case work in ccl64+OSX with no ASDF fixes needed.
but osicat works without reloading in SBCL+Linux64, again without an ASDF upgrade.
So it looks like it could be some kind of glitch in asdf or OSX SBCL (up to 1.4.9).
JK
On Apr 14, 2020, at 5:40 PM, Stelian Ionescu <sionescu@cddr.org mailto:sionescu@cddr.org> wrote:
Hello,
Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask ...
I’m using the ‘osicat’ package ( https://common-lisp.net/project/osicat/ https://common-lisp.net/project/osicat/ and https://github.com/osicat/osicat https://github.com/osicat/osicat ) in SBCL on OSX.
whenever I do ‘(asdf:load-system “osicat”) it seems to recompile the cffi-grovel-files and their dependencies.
Is this normal, or is there some way to make it behave like asdf usually does, that it recompiles only when a file has changed?
This sounds very much like a bug in ASDF that was fixed a while ago. I suggest upgrading to the latest version and retrying.
-- Stelian Ionescu