Re: ilisp-all.elc doc strings broken; ilisp-bug broken

John Paul Wallington <[email protected]> 14 Aug 2002 03:32:47 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.ilisp.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Paolo Amoroso <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Tue, 13 Aug 2002 02:04:55 -0400 (EDT), Devon Sean McCullough wrote:
> 
> > (2) In ilisp-5.12.0/Makefile
> > 
> > loadfile:
> > 	touch ilisp-all.elc
> > 	cat $(LoadFiles) > ilisp-all.elc
> > 	$(RM) $(LoadFiles)
> > 
> > produces broken doc strings for everything defined after the first file.
> 
> This is a known issue. As far as I know, if compiled files are concatenated
> together, there's no way of preserving references to the correct
> docstrings. Thanks for the reports,

Sorry if this has been mentioned before, but you can compile without
lazy-loaded docstrings: set/bind `byte-compile-dynamic-docstrings' to
nil.  Dunno what effect it will have on memory usage, or more
importantly load times, though.

-- 
John Paul Wallington




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