Re: [Chicken-hackers] Alternative egg installation directories

[felix . winkelmann]

> Attached is a patch that adds an extra environment variable
> (CHICKEN_INSTALL_BINDIR) to specify an alternative directory for
> executables (please don't consider applying -- it only serves to
> illustrate the situation).  I don't think it is enough, though.  Maybe
> eggs will want to install documentation or data files, and those should
> not go to the canonical installation prefix either.  Ideally, I think we
> should have variables that mimic BINDIR, VARDIR, LIBDIR, MANDIR etc. for
> egg installation too.  For convenience, just like for the installation
> of CHICKEN itself, we should have a PREFIX for eggs, so that we don't
> have to set up all the variables.  Then we are back to something similar
> to CHICKEN_PREFIX. :-)

Regrettable, but true. Can we make this somehow "internal",
for specific uses like in Salmonella?


felix