[Chicken-janitors] #1506: chicken-install produces dependency cycles

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#1506: chicken-install produces dependency cycles
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 Reporter:  kristianlm  |                 Owner:
     Type:  defect      |                Status:  new
 Priority:  major       |             Milestone:  5.0
Component:  core tools  |               Version:  5.0
 Keywords:              |  Estimated difficulty:
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 Doing this hangs csc forever:

 {{{
 address@hidden test]$ chicken-install check-errors
 building check-errors
   installing check-errors
 address@hidden test]$ echo '(import type-errors-numbers) (print "ok")' >
 test.scm
 address@hidden test]$ csc test.scm && ./test
 ok
 address@hidden test]$ csc -static test.scm && ./test
 ^C
 }}}

 I think the cause has something to do with the static dependency list of
 check-error's type-errors-numbers module:

 {{{
 address@hidden test]$ cat ~/.chickens/5.0.0rc1/lib/chicken/9/type-errors-
 numbers.link
 (type-errors-numbers type-errors-basic)
 address@hidden test]$ # this shouldn't contain itself, should it?
 address@hidden test]$ # this seems to be a reasonable workaround:
 address@hidden test]$ echo '(type-errors-basic)' >
 ~/.chickens/5.0.0rc1/lib/chicken/9/type-errors-numbers.link
 address@hidden test]$ csc -static test.scm && ./test
 ok
 }}}

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Ticket URL: <https://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/1506>
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