Re: [Chicken-users] srfi-128 - almost

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

On Sat, 18 Aug 2018 15:57:52 +0300 megane <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi Jörg,
>
> Jörg F. Wittenberger <address@hidden> writes:
>
> [...]
>> Brings back the question: how would I tell chicken to temporarily consult 
>> other locations for egg distributions? E.g. I'd like to use chicken-install 
>> in a fresh location outside the source directory of the egg to check that 
>> the whole download picks the correct files and all of them. Or maybe I just 
>> want to install an egg I deem not good enough to release.
>
>
> Maybe you're looking for a custom entry in share/chicken/setup.defaults.
> Maybe something like:
>
> (server (location "/path/to/my/eggs") (transport local))

Actually just

  $ echo "(location $EGGS_DIR)" >> $PREFIX/share/chicken/setup.defaults

should be enough.

Where EGGS_DIR is the directory where directories containing egg source
code can be found and $PREFIX is the CHICKEN installation prefix (what
you provided as argument to PREFIX when compiling CHICKEN).

If the egg you try to install (or its dependencies) cannot be found in
$EGGS_DIR, chicken-install will fall back to the `server' configuration
in setup.defaults (which defaults to the primary egg server).

All the best.
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