Re: [Chicken-hackers] multiple issues in embedded PCRE

[Marijn Schouten (hkBst)]

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John Cowan wrote:
> Marijn Schouten (hkBst) scripsit:
> 
>> I'm working in directory
>>
>> /home/marijn/cvs/gentoo-x86/dev-scheme/chicken
>>
>> My build script unpacks the source to
>>
>> /var/tmp/portage/dev-scheme/chicken-2.731/work/chicken-2.731/
>>
>> and runs
>>
>> make PLATFORM=linux PREFIX=/usr C_COMPILER_OPTIMIZATION_OPTIONS="$CFLAGS"
> 
> This sounds like you are trying to build Chicken in a directory other
> than the source directory, but AFAIK current versions of Chicken
> don't support that.

It's not what's happening. I'm unpacking, (implicitly) cd'ing to that
directory and building there. I don't know how it is picking up the directory
from which I'm running the script.

> Furthermore, it's not enough to build the 2.732 snapshot, because
> it will not work against the current clutch of eggs; you have
> to just use it as a bootstrap and rebuild HEAD, or something very
> close to HEAD.

I don't fully understand. You're saying the current snapshot of the stable
release is useless except for bootstrapping? Does this have anything to do
with egg versioning or lack thereof?

> It's also important to note that if you are building on a x86_64
> system with a 32-bit userland, you need to say "ARCH=x86" on the
> "make" command line.

I am building on amd64 with amd64 userland.

Marijn

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