Re: [Chicken-users] How can I check a new build of chicken?

[Christian Kellermann]

* John Long <address@hidden> [121115 19:03]:
>
> Hey Christian,
>
> On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 06:18:43PM +0100, Christian Kellermann wrote:
>
> > That version is way outdated. There is a more recent chicken port in
> > the WIP ports git tree.
> >
> > Regardless of that chicken builds just fine on the loongson. I am running
> > it there myself.
>
> Oh cool, another loongson owner! What OS are you running?

OpenBSD of course :)

> >  Just grab the latest release tarball and
> > build that one.
> >
> > The current version is 4.8.0.
>
> I did actually start doing that and then I thought it would be better to try
> getting the OpenBSD build to work because it keeps all the dependencies
> updated. Is there a way to check the install I have now, given the comments
> in the chicken makefile seem to suggest you have to do the test with the
> same parms as the build (and I'm not exactly sure what happened there)? If
> so, I'd prefer that at this point since I'm new to scheme and probably won't
> miss the new features for a while yet.

Well the chicken core itself has GCC and gmake as a dependency. The
extensions are not tracked by either port. So you wouldn't gain much.

Also note that in order to run make check you will need to install
chicken first, as there are some tests that require the runtime and
other things to be in place. If you are afraid of that you can choose
a PREFIX in /tmp or somewhere convenient. Just make sure that the
PREFIX matches on each invocatoin of make. Also see the README on
details.

You can save yourself most pains if you start from the WIP:

https://github.com/jasperla/openbsd-wip/tree/master/lang/chicken

> Thanks for getting back to me so quickly!

No problem, I do hope you get started quickly!

Kind regards,

Christian

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