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

[felix . winkelmann]

> 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?
> >

Sorry, I lost the context for this discussion - what exactly is the problem 
here?


felix