Possible incompleteness in INPUT-FILES for DEFINE-OP

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On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 7:28 PM, Robert Goldman <rpgoldman at sift.net> wrote:
> What seems like the obvious solution to this problem is to invoke
> RECORD-DEPENDENCY (with PLAN as NIL), but I'm afraid it's not entirely
> clear how to use this function.  This is the DEFGENERIC:
>
>   (defgeneric record-dependency (plan operation component)
>     (:documentation "Record an action as a dependency in the current plan"))
>
> So the action is the (OPERATION . COMPONENT) pair.  But in that case
> what do you mean by "record as a dependency"?  I think of a dependency
> as a relationship between two actions, as in "in order to perform the
> foo operation on bar, you must perform the bletch operation on baz."
> But this has only one action as argument.  So is this the depended on
> action or the dependent action?  I presume the former, but if so, what
> is the dependent action?
>
It looks like you need some RECORD-INPUT-FILE function analog to
RECORD-DEPENDENCY, that will inform ASDF that the action being
performed has some additional input file that wasn't otherwise
previously declared.

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