Re: [Chicken-users] chicken.egg builds on Cygwin

[felix winkelmann]

On 6/19/06, John Cowan <address@hidden> wrote:
> 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 assume this is Cygwin-specific, right?

> 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.

Oh, good.

> 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.

Hm... I'll try that. Thanks!


cheers,
felix