Re: [Chicken-users] Packaging eggs

[Jim Pryor]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 04:28:11PM -0400, Jim Pryor wrote:
> I should have said explicitly in my earlier email: when I'm attempting
> to build package X, I've always made sure to have previously built AND
> TEMPORARILY INSTALLED any packages that X depends on. So as long as my
> dependency-extraction is done correctly---and when it isn't, it's
> usually obvious---the build shouldn't be failing because any interfaces
> are missing. They should all be there, inside /usr/lib/chicken/5, which
> is where the egg should think it will also eventually reside. Nothing
> else resides in $pkgdir/usr/.

Let me head off a possible misunderstanding: nothing *at all* *yet* resides
in $pkgdir/usr. All the dependencies the egg we're building looks
for should be installed under /usr instead. Only the egg we're building,
and nothing else, gets installed into $pkgdir/usr.

-- 
Jim Pryor
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