Re: [Chicken-users] Cmake broken again: paths are not quoted

[John Cowan]

Brandon J. Van Every scripsit:

> Ah, thanks for this testing.  It behaves differently because you're 
> building with Cygwin, which has a Unix style path environment, not 
> Windows native.  I've been fixing Windows native paths and have 
> neglected the Unix path.  A simple application of quotes should fix it.  
> I will have a patch in Darcs shortly; I will e-mail then.

Okay.

> Look, please have a little more patience with the CMake build.  I don't 
> know if you've noticed, but I've made progress on every issue you've 
> brought up within a timeframe of like 2 days.  Yes, not a final 
> solution, and that bugs me to no end as well, which is why I'm cranking 
> out the code.  

Hey, you got me all wrong.  I have nothing but appreciation for your
efforts; I simply report things as I find them.  I am not impatient
or especially frustrated right now either -- the only time I started
screaming for help was when *both* the CMake *and* the autoconf builds
were broken on Cygwin.  And that was only because I needed things for
development that weren't in 2.315.

> In short, every effort is being applied.  Remember that this is open 
> source, and I'm not paid a dime for it.  Your testing is valuable, I do 
> consider it a contribution to the cause.  Please realize your 
> frustration is pretty much required for progress.  It's not like I've 
> announced a 100% rock solid build to the world; that's the goal I'm 
> working towards, and I believe nearly in sight of.  

I'm looking forward to it.  When you give the go-ahead, I can try
using the CMake build on x86_64-suse-linux, sparc-sun-solaris2.8, and
i486-linux-gnu as well:  I figure if it works on Cygwin, my personal box
as well as the most "difficult" target, it'll probably work on most of
the others as well.

FYI, _Linux Magazine_ has headlined CMake in its July (current) issue;
CMake will be the build process for the next version of KDE, one of the
two major desktop environments for Linux and other Unixes.

> Sure I'd like an automated nightly build that tests every permutation.  
> That takes time to develop; you up to it?

Sourceforge.net does provide a "compile farm" that provides the ability
to build on multiple platforms, though Felix would have to move Chicken
there to take advantage of it.  It doesn't do Windows, though.

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