[Chicken-users] chicken.egg builds on Cygwin

[John Cowan]

Well, almost.  Doing "chicken-setup chicken" with the current (2.320)
egg downloads, configures, and builds fine until the "make install"
process tries to overwrite chicken-setup.exe, which cannot be done
because it is currently running.

I recovered by going into the chicken.egg.dir directory and doing a "make
install" by hand, and then removing chicken.egg.dir and chicken.egg.
This produced a working build.

A safe approach would be for chicken-setup to notice that it is
building the Chicken egg (either by its name or by some internal flag
in chicken.setup) and copy chicken-setup to /tmp and then exec() it.


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