Re: [Chicken-hackers] Re: [Chicken-users] Build on cygwin problem

[Graham Fawcett]

On Jan 25, 2008 9:36 AM, Graham Fawcett <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Jan 25, 2008 2:36 AM, felix winkelmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> > The chicken with which you build is too old. You can use the "bootstrap"
> > make target to create a bootstrapping chicken from a tarball of C
> > sources, when you build from the svn trunk/branch.
> I also had trouble while 'make-bootstrapping' the svn head on Linux
> last week; sorry I didn't report it. Instead I downloaded a recent
> binary, installed it in /tmp, set my LD_LIBRARY_PATH accordingly, and
> then used 'make PLATFORM=linux CHICKEN=/tmp/chicken/.../chicken' to
> bootstrap the 3.x version.

Hm. I tried again, and this time it worked. Is make-bootstrap intended
only for systems that have *no* Chicken installed? I wonder whether it
failed earlier because of my 2.5 installation, and is succeeding now
because I have 3.x installed.

G