Re: [Chicken-users] How to install eggs in $HOME?

[Christian Kellermann]

Hi!

* Manfred Lotz <address@hidden> [140615 19:16]:
> I fully agree. This would be important to have.  If currently not
> possible perhaps chicken-install could be enhanced to be able to place
> executables somewhere else.

I have been installing chicken for years now locally only. For this
I do have a subdirectory ~/chickens which contain the full chicken
tree of each version (4.8.0.5 / 4.9.0.1 / master / etc) installed
there with the PREFIX set to ~/chickens/whatever while building.

To access a particular version I do have a symling in the chickens
directory "use-this" which points to the corresponding version. My
PATH includes ~/chickens/use-this/bin and I use chicken-select to
switch between versions. chicken-install just works fine with this
kind of setup. It is easy, no hassle to set up additional environment
variables and it works just fine.

Maybe that's also a valid option for you?

Kind regards,

Christian

P.S.: You can find chicken-select in the chicken-belt egg.

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