Re: [Chicken-hackers] Fwd: chicken-setup fails for silex on cygwin

[Matthew Welland]

That fixed it! Well, either the rm -rf of /usr/local or the using of CMake 
but which I don't know. I'm guessing the rm -rf ....

Either way thanks!

Matt
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On Monday 26 February 2007 20:22, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
> Matthew Welland wrote:
> > I have tried 2.5 and 2.6rc1. Lines got a bit messed up in forwarding
> > but hopefully there is enough info below...
>
> Builds fine on my box.  I used CMake 2.4.6 and Chicken-2.6rc1 tarball.
> I suggest you wipe your source and build directories clean, use fresh
> sources, and do an out-of-directory CMake build.  If you still have
> problems, then perhaps it is interference from an older Chicken
> installation somewhere.  So you'd clean that out somehow.  Be careful of
> old eggs sitting around, or old egg sources.  Your log was abbreviated
> so I don't know if you downloaded your silex sources fresh or not.
> Another possibility is perhaps some of your Cygwin toolchains are old
> and causing you grief.  Try updating to newer ones.
>
> Part of a proper build-and-test system would be to automatically
> diagnose some of these kinds of problems.  But that's not where Chicken
> development is at today.  I also wonder whether egg versioning can bite
> people in the butt.
>
> Brandon J. Van address@hidden ~/cygwin
> $ chicken-setup silex
>
> The extension silex does not exist.
> Do you want to download it ? (yes/no/abort) [yes] yes
> downloading silex.egg from (www.call-with-current-continuation.org eggs
> 80) ....
> ................
>   gunzip -c ../silex.egg | tar xf -
>   /usr/local/bin/csc -feature compiling-extension -s -O2 -d1 silex.scm
> silex.c:1: warning: -fPIC ignored for target (all code is position
> independent)
>   cp -r silex.dll /usr/local/lib/chicken/1/silex.dll
>   chmod a+r /usr/local/lib/chicken/1/silex.dll
>   cp -r silex.html /usr/local/lib/chicken/1/silex.html
>   chmod a+r /usr/local/lib/chicken/1/silex.html
>
> * Installing documentation files in /usr/local/lib/chicken/1:
>
>   chmod a+r /usr/local/lib/chicken/1/silex.setup-info
>   rm -fr silex.egg-dir
>
>
> Cheers,
> Brandon Van Every
>
>
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