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Re: [Chicken-users] Packaging eggs
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John Cowan |
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Re: [Chicken-users] Packaging eggs |
Date: |
Mon, 30 Aug 2010 15:23:17 -0400 |
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 1:57 PM, Jim Pryor <address@hidden> wrote:
> What is the proper way to invoke these? I don't understand why the
> CHICKEN_INSTALL_PREFIX should be needed at all for the first invocation,
> since no installing should take place. And indeed for many eggs it's not
> needed. However, many other eggs fail to build at this step complaining that
> (since chicken-install is here running with user privileges). they don't
> have permission to write to /usr/lib/chicken/5/something-or-other. As
> indeed they shouldn't. At no point during the building of these packages
> should anything be written to the machine's real /usr directory. That's
> where the eggs should think they'll end up, but it's our Linux distro's
> package manager that will (later) be installing the files there.
What I think is going on here is that if egg "foo" depends on egg
"bar" for syntax, then "foo" cannot be built unless the import library
for "bar" is installed, any more than you can build eggs if "chicken"
or "gcc" is not installed.
- Re: [Chicken-users] Packaging eggs, (continued)
- Re: [Chicken-users] Packaging eggs, Jim Pryor, 2010/08/30
- Re: [Chicken-users] Packaging eggs, Mario Domenech Goulart, 2010/08/30
- Re: [Chicken-users] Packaging eggs, Jim Pryor, 2010/08/30
- Re: [Chicken-users] Packaging eggs, Mario Domenech Goulart, 2010/08/30
- Re: [Chicken-users] Packaging eggs, Felix, 2010/08/31
- Re: [Chicken-users] Packaging eggs, Mario Domenech Goulart, 2010/08/31
- Re: [Chicken-users] Packaging eggs, Felix, 2010/08/31
- Re: [Chicken-users] Packaging eggs, Moritz Heidkamp, 2010/08/31
- Re: [Chicken-users] Packaging eggs, Felix, 2010/08/31
- Re: [Chicken-users] Packaging eggs, Jim Pryor, 2010/08/30
Re: [Chicken-users] Packaging eggs,
John Cowan <=