RE: object.lisp / aggregates.lisp dependency

hello;

i'm hooking uffi contingently into a much larger system. one which does not
build with asdf, so i'm trying to make the link "single point".
which means that when, in the larger build, a single component compiles, then
the entire uffi compiles. i could just make it do an entire asdf
compile-and-load, but i thought i'd try the two phase process.

the problem arises when one tries to (asdf:operate 'asdf:compile-op :uffi). when
that tries to compile aggregates.lisp, there is a macro expansion which requires
that size-of-foreign-type has been defined. for a compile-only pass, this
happens only if the respective definition is wrapped in

(eval-when (:compile-toplevel ...)
  ...
 )

...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cyrus Harmon [mailto:ch-uffi-dl6SmSK5uza1Z/[email protected]]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 07, 2005 17.03
> To: james anderson
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [UFFI-Devel] object.lisp / aggregates.lisp dependency
>
>
>
> Forgive my ignorance, but can you explain more about this? Under
> which situations does the eval-when need to fire? How will this
> prevent an intermediate load?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cyrus
>
> On Jun 7, 2005, at 5:04 AM, james anderson wrote:
>
> > hello;
> >
> > i observe that, in order to compile uffi without intermediate
> > loads, the definition of size-of-foreign-type in objects.lisp needs
> > an eval-when wrapper, as a macro-expansion in aggregates.lisp
> > requires it.
> >
> > ...
> >
> >
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