Re: [Chicken-hackers] Build failure for Chicken from Git master

[Mario Domenech Goulart]

Hi Dirk,

On Thu, 9 Aug 2012 13:17:32 +0200 Dirk Ullrich <address@hidden> wrote:

> I am unable to build Chicken from Git master on a Linux x86_64 system
> with a Chicken 4.7.0 installed.
> After checking out Git master I issued a
>
> make PLATFORM=linux
>
> in my local tree, and I get the error:
>
> chicken setup-api.scm -optimize-level 2 -include-path . -include-path
> ./ -inli -ignore-repository -feature chicken-bootstrap -no-warnings
> -specialize -types/types.db   -feature chicken-compile-shared -dynamic
> -emit-import-library setuapi \
>           -output-file setup-api.c
>
> Warning: invalid compiler option (gnored): "-specialize"
>
> Syntax error (import): cannot import from undefined module
>
>         scheme
>
>         Expansion history:
>
>         <syntax>          (##core#begin (module setup-api ((run
> execute) compi standard-extension make make/proc host-extens......
>         <syntax>          (module setup-api ((run execute) compile
> standard-exnsion make make/proc host-extension install-ex......
>         <syntax>          (##core#module setup-api ((run execute)
> compile stanrd-extension make make/proc host-extension ins......
>         <syntax>          (import scheme chicken foreign irregex utils
> posix pts extras data-structures srfi-1 srfi-13 files......    <--
>
> Actually I've tried two Linux systems: a Arch Linux x86_64
> installation, and a Debian unstable x86_64 system. Both give the same
> error described above.

You need a newer chicken to build the git code.  You can try the
4.8.0rc1 tarball that was released yesterday:
http://code.call-cc.org/dev-snapshots/2012/08/08/chicken-4.8.0rc1.tar.gz

Best wishes.
Mario
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