force = TRUE no longer force recompilation

[lionel-]

Pre-devtools 2, force = TRUE would force a full recompilation. Now I see:

Re-compiling purrr
─  installing *source* package ‘purrr’ ...
   ** libs
   make: Nothing to be done for `all'.

Forcing recompilation is useful for things like seeing compilation warnings again, or rebuilding the .so on a different computer, or with different Makevars.

[jimhester]

This was changed by #81, which @hadley wanted for roxygen. But I believe that changed did not satisfy the issue in roxygen, so likely this will end up getting changed again...

[hadley]

@lionel- can't you use compile = TRUE?

[lionel-]

Sorry I was confused. I'm using recompile = TRUE, not force =, which got deprecated in favour of compile =. This is not even the right package, I should have posted in pkgload.

[lionel-]

Though devtools::load_all(compile = TRUE) does not force a recompilation actually. Am I still missing something?

[lionel-]

Should this be transferred at pkgload?

[lionel-]

Am I the only one who needs to force recompilation of binaries? Perhaps there's something specific to my workflow?

[jimhester]

I always use an explicit devtools::clean_dll() + devtools::load_all() to do a clean recompile.

I think the current behavior is broken and likely this will go back to how it used to be, but I was waiting for the roxygen issues to get sorted out before committing to a path.