Re: [Chicken-hackers] [Chicken-janitors] #1218: chicken-install may fail if TMPDIR is mounted noexec (depending on setup-file details)

[Ivan Raikov]

Ubuntu-derived distributions now ship with /tmp mounted as noexec by
default. This results in a chicken-install error that is difficult to
diagnose by non-expert users. The remedy can be as simple as setting
TMPDIR (but perhaps that should be prominently documented), an option
that forces chicken-install to use a temporary subdir HOME as the
build location, or a test that compiles a program in TMPDIR and tries
to execute it. Does anyone else have opinions or suggestions about the
best way to solve this?

-Ivan

On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 7:30 AM, Peter Bex <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 22, 2017 at 07:17:09AM -0700, Ivan Raikov wrote:
>> It considerably limits the effectiveness of distributing software
>> written in Chicken, because now users who are not familiar with its
>> peculiarities cannot simply run chicken-install. Could at least some
>> option be added so that the user home directory is used instead of
>> TMPDIR?
>
> I fail to see the usefulness of adding yet another option, when
> overriding TMPDIR does exactly the same thing.  Let's take this to
> chicken-hackers; chicken-janitors isn't really intended as a
> discussion mailing list.
>
> Cheers,
> Peter