#1827: chicken-install creates empty egg-info files

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#1827: chicken-install creates empty egg-info files
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            Reporter:  Mario         |       Type:  defect
  Domenech Goulart                   |
              Status:  new           |   Priority:  minor
           Milestone:  someday       |  Component:  core tools
             Version:  5.3.0         |   Keywords:  chicken-install
Estimated difficulty:  hard          |
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 chicken-install creates empty egg-info files in some cases.  This led to
 errors like

 {{{
 Error: (assq) bad argument type: #!eof
 }}}

 Felix submitted a patch (224377d390456d9bd4ee5f43f44cea7c0872a08e) that
 handled those cases and printed a better error message, but the issue is
 still lurking somewhere.

 I took a look at IRC logs and and saw that we had at least four cases like
 that, two on Windows and two on Linux.  We have traces of three of those
 issues in paste.call-cc.org and in pastebin.com:

 * http://paste.call-
 cc.org/paste?id=476adbc8ef7b47d8a7ce9ccd7dc201d4737de7b7
 * http://paste.call-
 cc.org/paste?id=a7c9d3bd2dbc8837b02b418a33f6d7c5ca9d9455
 * https://pastebin.com/e2BdgGGC

 The eggs that seem to trigger the problem, according to the records we
 have, are:

 * apropos
 * check-errors
 * math
 * srfi-45

 See this thread on chicken-users for more details:
 https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2023-10/msg00002.html

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Ticket URL: <https://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/1827>
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