From debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Thu Sep 05 04:34:05 2019 Received: (at 37269) by debbugs.gnu.org; 5 Sep 2019 08:34:06 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34679 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i5nDR-00013V-LF for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 05 Sep 2019 04:34:05 -0400 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:53534) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1i5nDQ-000131-1R for 37269@debbugs.gnu.org; Thu, 05 Sep 2019 04:34:04 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:33140) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1i5nDK-0007JG-4S; Thu, 05 Sep 2019 04:33:58 -0400 Received: from [2001:660:6102:320:e120:2c8f:8909:cdfe] (port=53128 helo=ribbon) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1i5nDJ-0001JG-IA; Thu, 05 Sep 2019 04:33:57 -0400 From: =?utf-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= To: Pierre Neidhardt Subject: Re: [bug#37269] Acknowledgement ([PATCH] build-system/asdf: Add option to compress programs.) References: <20190902135020.14473-1-mail@ambrevar.xyz> <87pnki3is4.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> <874l1t8o4s.fsf@gmail.com> <874l1s6z9r.fsf@gnu.org> <87sgpcdxxt.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 19 Fructidor an 227 de la =?utf-8?Q?R=C3=A9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0x090B11993D9AEBB5 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 3CE4 6455 8A84 FDC6 9DB4 0CFB 090B 1199 3D9A EBB5 X-OS: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2019 10:33:56 +0200 In-Reply-To: <87sgpcdxxt.fsf@ambrevar.xyz> (Pierre Neidhardt's message of "Wed, 04 Sep 2019 14:54:06 +0200") Message-ID: <87lfv3i1l7.fsf@gnu.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Spam-Score: -2.3 (--) X-Debbugs-Envelope-To: 37269 Cc: Andy Patterson , 37269@debbugs.gnu.org, Katherine Cox-Buday X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Sender: "Debbugs-submit" X-Spam-Score: -3.3 (---) Pierre Neidhardt skribis: > Ludovic Court=C3=A8s 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=E2=80=99ll 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=E2=80=99d need to see exactly what it does if we decide to enable it=E2=80=94better safe than sorry! Thanks, Ludo=E2=80=99.