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

[Aleksej Saushev]

Michele La Monaca <address@hidden> writes:

>> 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.
>
> 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.

What is the problem of bundling X11 install.sh as it is done by other software?
It has clear benefits over your proposal:
1. It works with cross-compilation.
2. It works not only with Solaris 11 but with a lot more operating systems as 
well.
3. It is proven way already.


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