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[bug#37269] Acknowledgement ([PATCH] build-system/asdf: Add option to co
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
[bug#37269] Acknowledgement ([PATCH] build-system/asdf: Add option to compress programs.) |
Date: |
Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:33:56 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> skribis:
> Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Compressed files are opaque to the garbage collector scanner and to
>> grafting, so we could end up in situations like:
>>
>> https://issues.guix.gnu.org/issue/33848
>>
>> (Which would be nice to address, BTW! :-))
>>
>> Thus, I think we’ll have keep compression turned off.
>
> Actually, in this case it doesn't. I tried with Next and the resulting
> package keeps all references to the Common Lisp libraries.
> I believe that SBCL only compresses the image, not the sources (which are
> embedded as well).
OK. We’d need to see exactly what it does if we decide to enable
it—better safe than sorry!
Thanks,
Ludo’.