It turns out to be an intermediate-version SBCL bug, fixed by upgrading to 2.0.3.
Sorry for this additional email, but I thought it better to close the issue out. > On Apr 15, 2020, at 12:36 PM, JTK <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thank you for the suggestion to upgrade ASDF, Stelian. > > I upgraded my builtin SBCL asdf.fasl from 3.3.4 to 3.3.4.1 (git version) with > a manual replacement of fasl. > > This > > - fixes my toy test case on OSX+SBCL (no more unnecessary recompile) > > - does not fix osicat on OSX+SBCL > > - but both osicat and toy test case work in ccl64+OSX with no ASDF fixes > needed. > > - but osicat works without reloading in SBCL+Linux64, again without an ASDF > upgrade. > > So it looks like it could be some kind of glitch in asdf or OSX SBCL (up to > 1.4.9). > > JK > > > >> On Apr 14, 2020, at 5:40 PM, Stelian Ionescu <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask ... >>> >>> I’m using the ‘osicat’ package ( https://common-lisp.net/project/osicat/ >>> <https://common-lisp.net/project/osicat/> and >>> https://github.com/osicat/osicat <https://github.com/osicat/osicat> ) in >>> SBCL on OSX. >>> >>> whenever I do ‘(asdf:load-system “osicat”) it seems to recompile the >>> cffi-grovel-files and their dependencies. >>> >>> Is this normal, or is there some way to make it behave like asdf usually >>> does, that it recompiles only when a file has changed? >> >> This sounds very much like a bug in ASDF that was fixed a while ago. I >> suggest upgrading to the latest version and retrying. >> >> -- >> Stelian Ionescu >
