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Re: [Chicken-users] chicken-setup on Windows


From: felix winkelmann
Subject: Re: [Chicken-users] chicken-setup on Windows
Date: Sat, 15 Sep 2007 11:55:00 +0200

>
> I found a problem with the latest SVN check out of Chicken. chicken-setup
> could download and compile extensions all right, but failed when copying
> them because the paths passed to the copy command contained both forward-
> and back-slashes. I've attached a patch that will, under Windows only, quote
> any paths with forward slashes in them, which fixes the problem. I tested it
> under Linux also (Ubuntu 7.04), and it still worked fine there.

Thanks, Eric. The patch is applied.

>
> Another option would be to change the appropriate make files to insert the
> correct path separator for each OS. I played with doing that for a while,
> but the combination of passing the paths in on the command line, running
> them through make, and writing them to the C header file seemed error prone
> and brittle.

Yes, it wouldn't really enhance the readability of the makefiles.

>
> I wasn't entirely sure where to send this, since it's more of a bug fix than
> a bug report. If I need to post this to Trac, just let me know.

This is fine.

>
> Thanks for a great product. I really appreciate all the work that's gone
> into it.

You're welcome. Thanks for using it!


cheers,
felix




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