Re: [Chicken-users] Portable installs broken?

[Peter Bex]

On Sun, Apr 06, 2014 at 08:55:31AM -0700, Daniel Leslie wrote:
> I'm trying to create a 'portable' distribution of chicken and am running
> into a simple issue. Basically, the built-in library search path isn't
> always valid, and csc and csi don't appear to pay attention to
> LD_LIBRARY_PATH.
> 
> Alright, so with csi and csc we can get around this by explicitly providing
> a -include-path parameter at the command line. But what of installing eggs?
> Chicken-install takes no such parameter, and invocations of csc from setup
> scripts are not mutable to accept the parameter.
> 
> It seems to me that the easy fix would be to import a path from some
> environment variable by default. Does such an environment variable exist
> already?

The way I do it is by passing CSC_OPTIONS on the commandline, through an
environment.  There, you can place any options which are appended to the
commandline for every "csc" invocation.

Cheers,
Peter
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