Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] A native scheme install

[Felix]

From: Michele La Monaca <address@hidden>
Subject: Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] A native scheme install
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2013 19:55:10 +0100

>> Concurred, there is basically no way this change is going in as long
>> as it involves relying on Chicken before it is installed.  'make test'
>> doesn't even work in that case right now.
>>
>> Anyway, my understanding is that the existing solution works on all
>> known platforms, while relying on uninstalled chicken will likely
>> segfault / break on several platforms.
>>
>> Jim
> 
> Ehi, I am not saying let's switch to install.scm as the default
> installer (not for now at least). My proposition is: let's bundle
> install.scm in the tarball and let's give the user an extra chance to
> have a BSD-compatible install program. On some systems, Solaris 11 for
> example, you don't have one in the default installation and the
> current default (ginstall) is rather unlikely. That's it.

+10

I like that. The bootstrapping and cross-building issues aside - I
can't recall the number of times where some shell-idiosyncrasy or
not-quite-that-compatible UNIX tool has driven me crazy where I wanted
to do something that merely needs 5 lines of (chicken) Scheme...


cheers,
felix