Re: [Chicken-users] current cvs error?

[Felix Winkelmann]

Peter Keller wrote:
> I have a comment about this part of the README.CVS file:
>
> ---
> 6. To generate the .c files needed to build the bootstrapped compiler,
>    you must supply the full path to the Chicken compiler you built in
>    step 2.
>
>     $ gmake CHICKEN=/home/yourname/chicken-X.YYYY/dist/bin/chicken
>
> This command will cause the entire system to be built using the
> compiler you installed from the source snapshot. 
> Never mind those warnings.
> ---
>
> It turns out this is not entirely true. You need to actually do this:
>
>
> $ gmake CHICKEN=/home/yourname/chicken-X.YYYY/dist/bin/chicken \
>                 CSI=/home/yourname/chicken-X.YYYY/dist/bin/csi
>
> I say this because I had installed the bad bootstrapped version of chicken
> into my /usr/local dir, and then when I built a cvs chicken version the
> build system used whatever 'csi' it found in my path, not the one from
> the bootstrap version of chicken I was relying on. The csi in my path
> was bad, thereby preventing the recompilation from succeeding.

Yes, I'm sorry about this. Sven actually told me about this
problem a few days ago, and I simply forgot.

> So, I propose changing the build slightly to make a BOOTSTRAP_PATH
> Makefile variable which defaults to ./, but when you set it on the command
> line, you use whatever bootstrapping executables you need(chicken, csi,
> etc) as defined from that path.
>
> Then the directions would say this:
> $ gmake BOOTSTRAP_PATH=/home/yourname/chicken-X.YYYY/dist/bin
>
> Sound reasonable?

Good idea. I hope to get near my machine at home this weekend and
fix it according to your proposal.


cheers,
felix