Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Re: Alternative egg installation directories

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

On Sun, 28 May 2017 23:22:40 +0200 address@hidden wrote:

> Here a patch for this. CHICKEN_INSTALL_PREFIX overrides the bin,
> include or share directories when generating the install scripts. Note
> that the installed egg-info files refer to the new directory as well,
> so this is not the same as DESTDIR.  chicken-status +
> chicken-uninstall will list and uninstall files woth set prefix
> transparently. Egg-loading is not influenced, so this is much simpler
> and less eror-prone than the old CHICKEN_PREFIX.

Thanks, Felix.

Is CHICKEN_INSTALL_PREFIX intended to be used together with
CHICKEN_INSTALL_REPOSITORY?  If I don't set CHICKEN_INSTALL_REPOSITORY,
extensions and .egg-info files end up in the canonical repository.  Not
sure if this is by design.

Should CHICKEN_INSTALL_REPOSITORY be implicitly set to
CHICKEN_INSTALL_PREFIX/lib/chicken/<binversion> when
CHICKEN_INSTALL_PREFIX is set in the environment?  In this case,
couldn't we just get rid of CHICKEN_INSTALL_REPOSITORY and use
CHICKEN_INSTALL_PREFIX only?

All the best.
Mario
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