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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: 37269@debbugs.gnu.org, Katherine Cox-Buday <cox.katherine.e@gmail.com>
Subject: [bug#37269] Acknowledgement ([PATCH] build-system/asdf: Add option to compress programs.)
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:33:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lfv3i1l7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sgpcdxxt.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Wed, 04 Sep 2019 14:54:06 +0200")

Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> skribis:

> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> Compressed files are opaque to the garbage collector scanner and to
>> grafting, so we could end up in situations like:
>>
>>   https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/33848
>>
>> (Which would be nice to address, BTW! :-))
>>
>> Thus, I think we’ll have keep compression turned off.
>
> Actually, in this case it doesn't.  I tried with Next and the resulting
> package keeps all references to the Common Lisp libraries.
> I believe that SBCL only compresses the image, not the sources (which are
> embedded as well).

OK.  We’d need to see exactly what it does if we decide to enable
it—better safe than sorry!

Thanks,
Ludo’.

      reply	other threads:[~2019-09-05  8:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-02 13:50 [bug#37269] [PATCH] build-system/asdf: Add option to compress programs Pierre Neidhardt
     [not found] ` <handler.37269.B.156743223413658.ack@debbugs.gnu.org>
2019-09-02 13:54   ` [bug#37269] Acknowledgement ([PATCH] build-system/asdf: Add option to compress programs.) Pierre Neidhardt
2019-09-03 14:12     ` Katherine Cox-Buday
2019-09-03 14:56       ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-09-04 12:07       ` Ludovic Courtès
2019-09-04 12:54         ` Pierre Neidhardt
2019-09-05  8:33           ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]

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