Re: [Chicken-users] Chicken-setup 2.3 fails on Cygwin

[Matthew Welland]

No idea if this is related but I had a similar problem where if the current 
directory had a space in the path chicken-setup would fail. Running 
chicken-setup in a location where the path was free of spaces worked fine.

On Tuesday 21 March 2006 11:30, Patrick Brannan wrote:
> Can you run it with -v (verbose) and post the output?
>
> On 3/20/06, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> > I built Chicken 2.3 from source on a Cygwin system that had no previous
> > copy of Chicken on it.  It built and installed successfully, but
> > chicken-setup consistently fails as follows:
> >
> > $ chicken-setup numbers
> >
> > The extension numbers does not exist.
> > Do you want to download it ? (yes/no/abort) [yes] yes
> > downloading catalog ...
> > downloading catalog from www.call-with-current-continuation.org ...
> > downloading numbers.egg from (www.call-with-current-continuation.org
> > eggs/ 80) ... Error: (change-directory) can not change current directory
> > - No such file or directory: "numbers.egg.dir"
> >
> > Creating numbers.egg.dir myself does not help.  It does not matter which
> > egg I try to install; repeating this run correctly skips the download
> > step but then crashes with the same error.
> >
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> >
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