On 7/19/07, Raymond Toy <raymond.toy at ericsson.com> wrote:
> > If we do create a defsystem file, can we set it up so that
> > it doesn't ask any questions? Defsystem is the orgin of
> > the "Should I compile while loading?" and other stuff
> > like that, right? That drives me bonkers.
>
> How do you invoke mk:oos? I always do (mk:oos "foo" :compile) so it
> compiles and loads. I don't think mk:oos will ask any other questions
> unless some file can't be found or can't be written or some other error.
>From what I can tell, the questions appear if MK:LOAD-SYSTEM
or MK:OOS "FOO" :LOAD is called, but not MK:COMPILE-SYSTEM
or MK:OOS "FOO" :COMPILE. Of the packages in share which have
defsystem files, sym and lapack use defsystem compile and affine
uses defsystem load, so affine generates the questions
while sym and lapack do not.
I will change affine to call defsystem compile.
>From what you wrote above, I guess you are already planning
to have linearalgebra use defsystem compile, too, so that's good.
best
Robert