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Subject: Re: [PATCH] build: pull: Compile .scm files in one process.
Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2015 14:04:55 +0100
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taylanbayirli@gmail.com (Taylan Ulrich "Bay=C4=B1rl=C4=B1/Kammer") skribis:

> After some tinkering around I realized that the problem is that our
> workaround of loading files explicitly causes the package record type to
> be redefined after some packages have already been defined.  More
> generally, we force the top-level of many files to be re-executed after
> they've already been executed as a result of a module import...
>
> It would be great if the whole circular import problem could somehow be
> solved by Guile (no idea how feasible it is).  On the meanwhile, we'll
> have to work around problems introduced by workarounds. :-)

I think we=E2=80=99ve gone way too far in kludgeland.  ;-)

The other idea I had, and which is known to work, it to rely exclusively
on auto-compilation.  By definition, Guile=E2=80=99s auto-compilation mode =
will
compile things in the right order, thereby allowing us to compile
everything in one process.  Probably not parallelizable though, since
this is under Guile=E2=80=99s control, not ours.

Would you like to play with that?  Otherwise I can give it a try later.

Thank you,
Ludo=E2=80=99.