Broken incremental compilation for Plots

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I’m getting the following incremental compilation warning from __precompile()ing a module that is using Plots:

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julia> using TrackRoots
INFO: Recompiling stale cache file /home/yakir/.julia/lib/v0.6/TrackRoots.ji for module TrackRoots.
WARNING: eval from module Plots to TrackRoots:    
Expr(:block, Expr(:line, 69, Symbol("/home/yakir/.julia/v0.6/Plots/src/backends/gr.jl"))::Any, Expr(:import, :GR)::Any, Expr(:line, 70, Symbol("/home/yakir/.julia/v0.6/Plots/src/backends/gr.jl"))::Any, Expr(:export, :GR)::Any)::Any
  ** incremental compilation may be broken for this module **

The offending file is here.

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https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Plots.jl/issues/1171

https://github.com/JuliaPlots/Plots.jl/issues/918

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Thank you @kristoffer.carlsson!

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Do you need to depend on Plots - couldn’t you just use RecipesBase?

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I’d love to. But this is for a specific user who is not going to want to plot any (of my) specialized types on her/his own. They just want to point at a (specific metadata) file and have “the program” (i.e. Julia) generate mp4 files. So while I could create a recipe for this, it would only be used within the same module. Or maybe I misunderstood you (like one place where I should/could script some recipes is RayTraceEllipsoid.jl).