If you change Base, you do need to regenerate the system image. I always do this by running make clean and make, but it might be possible to do things faster than that process.
— John On Sep 20, 2014, at 2:57 PM, Erik Schnetter <schnet...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am trying to add "info" calls to Base functions to debug an issue. These > don't make it to my screen, and I don't know whether they are getting lost > somewhere or whether Julia is ignoring my modifications. Do I need to > re-build and re-install Julia after modifying files in Base? > > If so: Can I avoid pre-compiling files? In particular, "osutils.jl" takes a > long time to build. > > -erik >
