Re: [Chicken-users] unified bootstrap

[felix winkelmann]

On 9/4/06, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > - Dependency on automake 1.9.6 isn't so good. I removed the check
> >  for 1.9.6 and everything seems to work so far (using automake 1.8.3).
>
> Why not good?  You prefer bugs in old build systems?  We don't have to
> follow the bleeding edge, but 1.8.x is rather old.  We should be using
> whatever is most recent and readily packaged.  That should be 1.9.x if
> not 1.9.6.  Realize, automake is only for people creating distros, i.e.
> you, me.  It has no effect on the end user, other than possibly
> producing a more reliable ./configure script.

I don't care. That software-update race is annoying enough as it is.
1.8.3 works for me.

> > - csi.c should be distributed as well.
>
> Have you ever had a case of csi building but chicken not building?  If
> that has happened, ok, I see your point.  If it has never happened, then
> I don't see the point, as csi.c is readily built once chicken is built.
> There isn't any silex in the build anymore, that's what csi used to be
> needed for.  We could even distribute chicken-profile.c,
> chicken-setup.c, etc. if you're really worried about it.  I mean, what's
> special about csi.c compared to the others?

csi.c, chicken-profile.c, chicken-setup.c and csc.c will have to be
included in the distribution, since it simplifies cross-compilation.
Please be so kind to change the make/build files accordingly.


cheers,
felix

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