Summary

Sometimes additional import libraries are exported when using the -j switch

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Description

This can be seen with the prometheus egg.

Just run csc -s -j hermes hermes.scm and you'll see it will have written both hermes.import.scm and _hermes.import.scm; the latter wasn't requested, and this in fact clobbers the custom hand-crafted import file with a generic one, which breaks the egg.

As a workaround, the import libraries are now shipped with the egg instead of emitting them every time the libraries are compiled.

Changes and comments

[2013-08-04 16:44:14 UTC] sjamaan changed status from new to closed

[2013-08-04 16:44:14 UTC] sjamaan set resolution to fixed

[2013-08-04 16:44:14 UTC] sjamaan wrote:

This is so silly: after all this time, it turns out that the bug was just an unexpected behaviour of s48-modules itself: it contained a strange hack to force the compiler to emit import libraries for the _-prefixed modules!

Since the user can request this him- or herself, and is told to do so in the egg's manual, I think removing this behaviour is the best solution. This is done with the change in [[29502]|].