[cclan-list] Re: asdf recompilation trigger problem

[Miles E. <mi...@ca...>]

On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 13:05, Daniel Barlow wrote:
> Miles Egan <mi...@ca...> writes:
>=20
> > The issue is that, when gentoo "merges" (installs) the sbcl package, it
> > sets all the file timestamps to the same value, which triggers this
> > clause (I think):
> >
> >        (and
> >         (every #'probe-file out-files)
> >         (> (apply #'min (mapcar #'file-write-date out-files))
> >            (apply #'max (mapcar #'file-write-date in-files)) ))))))
>=20
> Oh bah.  There are issues involved with fast machines and compilations
> that take less than a second.  I can't actually remember what the
> effect of > versus >=3D is, but I do remember thinking about it.
>=20
> Of course, it's entirely possible I got the wrong answer last time and
> >=3D is the better comparison.  But, as I say, actual thought required.

I seem to always run into this problem with make & nfs mounts too.=20
Annoying.

For now I'm just touching all the fasl files in a postinstall script.=20
Hacky, but it works.

--=20
Miles Egan <mi...@ca...>