[Chicken-users] Problem installing eggs outside of usual installation directory.

[David Martínez Moreno]

        Hello, I've been trying to install something outside of 
/var/lib/chicken and
I'm just unable to do it.  There seems to be something in setup-api that
avoids me to do it.

        Plain chicken 4.2.0 install:

loki:~# chicken-install -p /tmp/ setup-helper
retrieving ...
connecting to host "chicken.kitten-technologies.co.uk", port 80 ...
requesting "/henrietta.cgi?name=setup-helper" ...
reading response ...
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:17:20 GMT
Server: Apache
Connection: close
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Content-Type: text/plain
reading chunks ...
reading files ...
  ./setup-helper.meta
  ./setup-helper.setup
  ./setup-helper.scm
 setup-helper located at /tmp/chicken-install-a5.tmp/setup-helper
checking dependencies for `setup-helper' ...
install order:
("setup-helper")
installing setup-helper: ...
changing current directory to /tmp/chicken-install-a5.tmp/setup-helper
  /usr/bin/csi -bnq -setup-mode -e "(require-library setup-api)" -e "(import 
setup-api)" -e "(extension-name-and-version '(\"setup-helper\" \"\"))" -e 
"(installation-prefix \"/tmp/\")" 
/tmp/chicken-install-a5.tmp/setup-helper/setup-helper.setup
  mkdir -p /tmp/share/chicken
  chmod a+x /tmp/share/chicken
  cp -r setup-helper.scm /tmp/share/chicken/setup-helper.scm
  mkdir -p /tmp/lib/chicken
  chmod a+x /tmp/lib/chicken

Error: (open-output-file) cannot open file - No such file or directory: 
"/tmp/lib/chicken/4/setup-helper.setup-info"

        Call history:

        get-output-string
        setup-api.scm: 607  make-pathname
        setup-api.scm: 611  ensure-directory
        setup-api.scm: 615  pathname-directory
        setup-api.scm: 616  file-exists?
        setup-api.scm: 617  directory?
        setup-api.scm: 415  make-pathname
        setup-api.scm: 444  with-output-to-file                 <--

Error: shell command terminated with nonzero exit code
17920
"/usr/bin/csi -bnq -setup-mode -e \"(require-library setup-api)\" -e \"(import 
s...


        Any ideas?  I've also tried chicken 4.2.12 to no avail.


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