Re: [Chicken-users] depreciating CHICKEN_HOME

[felix winkelmann]

On 6/11/06, Goetz Isenmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> I had hoped, that I
>
>  - could compile chicken with any arbitrary installation path (say
>    /var/tmp/chicken or %TEMP%\chicken),
>
>  - build a binary package from that,
>
>  - install this package into another directory on many machines or on
>    a network share (if neccessary different versions side by side),
>
>  - and use these installations after setting CHICKEN_HOME and
>    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (or equiv).
>
> Currently, that does not seem to work. Is that something, that could
> be fixed, or are there other reasons, why I should not try to do this
> with the interpreter, the compiler, the runtime, or (static/dynamic
> linked) applications?

Hm... This *might* work by setting CHICKEN_HOME, LD_LIBRARY_PATH
and CHICKEN_REPOSITORY, but will always be a bit of a hack.
What specific problems do you currently have? What you intend to do
makes certainly sense, so perhaps we should try to address this.


(felix)