JuliaLang/PackageCompiler.jl

Add option to log which statement is being precompiled

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#867 opened on Oct 13, 2023

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Description

We're seeing a hang during create_app (https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/51603) for which we suspected a hang during type inference for a precompile(...) statement.

It these cases, it'd be helpful to be able to turn on a verbose/debug option to print which statement is being precompiled

There's a commented-out println in the code for this, so it'd just be turning that into a proper debug option https://github.com/JuliaLang/PackageCompiler.jl/blob/846292c50a7177ea27f1fdb607be8c42174e030e/src/PackageCompiler.jl#L343

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Look at the referenced line with the commented out println and implement a debug option (e.g., environment variable or command line flag) to conditionally print the precompile statement.
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julia
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