Re: [Chicken-users] New user; egg problems

[Kon Lovett]

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Hi Richard,

On Dec 7, 2006, at 9:35 AM, Richard Lewis wrote:

> Hello CHICKEN users,
>
> I'm new both to chicken scheme and, in fact, to scheme itself. I  
> was attracted
> to chicken as soon as I saw that it had a very simple module  
> management
> system.

Well, maybe not. New users w/ older chicken releases always run into  
the problems you are facing.

> I have experienced a few problems with installing some of the eggs  
> though. It
> seems that two important eggs (i.e. ones with quite a few  
> dependents) won't
> install correctly: easyffi and base64.
>
> aquila:/home/richard# chicken-setup easyffi
>   /usr/bin/csc -feature compiling-extension -s -O2 -d0 easyffi.scm -G
> csc: invalid option `-G'
> make: Failed to make easyffi.so: shell invocation failed with non- 
> zero return
> status
> Error: shell invocation failed with non-zero return status
> "/usr/bin/csc -feature compiling-extension -s -O2 -d0 easyffi.scm -G"
> 64
>
> and
>
> aquila:/home/richard# chicken-setup base64
>   /usr/bin/csc -feature compiling-extension -s -O2 -d1
> base64.scm -emit-exports base64.exports
> csc: invalid option `-emit-exports'
> Error: shell invocation failed with non-zero return status
> "/usr/bin/csc -feature compiling-extension -s -O2 -d1
> base64.scm -emit-exports ...
> 64
>
> My system is Debian "unstable" with chicken 2.3
>
> I hope its just something really simple!

Need at least version 2.5, which must be built from source for Linux.

You know the drill:

Get <http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/ 
chicken-2.5.tar.gz>. Extract. Follow the instructions in the README.

The current version is 2.509, but this must be acquired thru darcs or  
svn.

Sorry, Chicken is unstable in the sense that it is being extended and  
refined constantly. Many changes are not efficiently backwards  
compatible, especially when an egg requires a new feature.

Missing is the ability to associate Chicken & Egg versions. As the  
community grows this becomes more of a problem.

> Also, I notice that it leaves the egg file and an associated  
> directory in the
> directory where I run chicken-setup. Is it alright to delete these
> afterwards?

Yes.

> (BTW, my jabber id predates not only my decision to try chicken  
> scheme but
> also my awareness of its existence!)
>
> Cheers,
> Richard
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