[Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Always regenerate import libraries in setup-mode

[Evan Hanson]

Hi all,

Here's a patch that addresses a bad interaction between chicken-do and
the code in core.scm that avoids regenerating import libraries when they
haven't changed. Basically, by skipping the import library, target files
can become stuck as "out of date" and that further invocations of
chicken-install will always rebuild them.

For example:

    chicken-install -r regex
    cd ~/.cache/chicken-install/regex
    chicken-install -n                 # everything is built
    touch regex.scm
    chicken-install -n                 # so is built (as well as static.o)
    chicken-install -n                 # so is built
    chicken-install -n                 # so is built
    # and so on ...

This patch is a very simple solution to the problem, but it's not the
only way we could address the issue so if someone wants to propose
something more clever please be my guest.

Cheers,

Evan

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