Re: [Chicken-hackers] [Chicken-users] using types

[megane]

Jörg F. Wittenberger writes:

> On Feb 21 2013, Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote:
>
>>Somehow I can't verify that my type declarations are actually
>>effective.
>
>
> I've been able to verify that my .types files are not ever consulted.
>
> Using strace I found that the "foo.types" file is searched for in
>
> stat("/usr/lib/chicken/6/foo.types", 0x7fffc1895400) = -1 ENOENT (No such 
> file or directory)
>
> But since that's not an extension but just a simple module, which is
> part of a larger program, there is no good reason to ever install
> the .types file in the repository.
>
> To deal with the issue I tried to use -setup-mode.  No effect at all.
>
> Further it seem to be the case that CHICKEN_REPOSITORY must be s imple
> directory and may not be some colon-separated path.
>
> At this moment I don't see any solution how to make chicken read
> the .types files it produced *within* a single directory.
>
> How would I do that?
>
> Thanks a lot!
>

Could you try if this [1] patch is of help. It essentially makes the
compiler to search for .types files from each path supplied with
-include-path.

Footnotes: 
[1]  http://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/938