Re: [Chicken-users] Error compiling on AMD64 linux machine

[Richard Hollos]

Problem solved!

We noticed that after doing a "make" the library files that started as .scm in
/usr/local/src/ did not have corresponding .so files and so never appeared
after "make...install" in /usr/local/lib/chicken/5/

We concluded that we needed a bootstrap compiler. It wasn't clear from reading
the README that I needed one. I got the impression that it was only needed
when compiling a development version.

So we downloaded this old compiler binary, as the README file suggests when
needing a bootstrapper:
http://code.call-cc.org/bootstrap/chicken-boot-4.3.7-linux-x86.bz2

Ran bunzip2 on it, then in /usr/local/src/chicken-4.6.0/ did the following:
make PLATFORM=linux CHICKEN=./chicken-boot-4.3.7-linux-x86 boot-chicken

This made the executable chicken-boot in /usr/local/src
then did:
make PLATFORM=linux CHICKEN=./chicken-boot

Now installed with the command:
make PLATFORM=linux CHICKEN=./chicken-boot install

There were no errors, and
LD_DEBUG=libs /usr/local/bin/chicken-install -update-db -:d
also showed no errors.

It was the old chicken and egg problem, you can't get the first chicken
without an egg or another chicken. I guess this is why the chicken crossed the
road: to get chicken-boot.

Thank you very much Felix for your help.

Many thanks,
Richard Hollos