[racket] "raco setup -c my-collect" takes a long time

I guess just using `(define-logger x11)' and `log-x11-debug' isn't
enough control?

The `--mode' argument to `raco setup' is more intended for this
situation, but it requires a little work to create a mode. Carl's
suggestion of PLTCOMPILEDROOTS may be simpler (though, again, it's not
really meant for this job).

I can see how `raco setup -c' is an even simpler solution. The problem
in `raco setup -c' is parsing the command line to decide whether to
bootstrap `raco setup' itself from source --- and that decision has to
be made before loading the command-line parser that is part of `raco
setup'. There's a little conservative parser that triggers bootstrap
mode is it detects anything that looks like `-c'. Maybe the solution is
to have a different flag that isn't treated specially, and so it works
only on collections that aren't used to implement `raco setup'.

At Thu, 29 Nov 2012 13:34:40 +0100, Laurent wrote:
> Because x11-racket compilation depends on an environment variable to decide
> if it should compile with debug info or not.
> So if I want to recompile with a different debug option without modifying
> the source files it seems I need to remove the `compiled' directories,
> right?
> It seems that `raco setup' does not recompile if the source have not
> changed (based on a hash I presume, since touching the files does not force
> recompilation either).
> The `--force' option does not do what I want either it seems.
> 
> Or maybe there is a better way to do that?
> 
> Laurent
> 
> 
> On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 1:22 PM, Matthew Flatt <mflatt at cs.utah.edu> wrote:
> 
> > `raco setup -c' is intended to reset a whole installation, and so it
> > doesn't adapt well to having a collection specified.
> >
> > Can you explain more why you need `raco setup -c my-collect' instead of
> > just `raco setup my-collect'?
> >
> > At Thu, 29 Nov 2012 09:35:01 +0100, Laurent wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Doing
> > > $ raco setup -c my-collect
> > > takes about 30s to "bootstrap from source", and it does that for each
> > such
> > > invocation.
> > >
> > > Is it possible to reduce this time? It makes "raco setup -c" almost
> > > unusable.
> > >
> > > Laurent
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