Re: [Chicken-users] Having trouble statically compiling code

[Christian Kellermann]

* Peter Bex <address@hidden> [160901 08:46]:
> On Thu, Sep 01, 2016 at 02:03:26AM +0100, stugol wrote:
> >    Hi Peter,
> >
> >    We're close, but not quite there yet:
> >
> >      Error: (require) cannot load extension: setup-api
> >                 Call history:
> >                 intarweb.scm:577: irregex
> >                 intarweb.scm:612: list
> >                 intarweb.scm:612: make-parameter
> >                 intarweb.scm:630: make-parameter
> >                 intarweb.scm:718: list
> >                 intarweb.scm:718: make-parameter
> >                 intarweb.scm:743: list
> >                 intarweb.scm:743: list
> >                 intarweb.scm:790: make-parameter
> >                 intarweb.scm:885: list
> >                 intarweb.scm:885: make-parameter
> >                 intarweb.scm:911: irregex
> >                 intarweb.scm:934: irregex
> >                 intarweb.scm:967: list
> >                 intarweb.scm:967: make-parameter
> >                 setup-helper.scm:12: ##sys#require                    <--
> >
> >    I tried artificially adding 'setup-api' as a dependency to 'intarweb',
> >    but it's not a real package and so can't be linked.
>
> It looks like something intarweb depends on is (include)ing setup-helper.
> That egg is a constant source of trouble, especially when people use the
> deprecated way of using it, through (include).  You'd have to grep the
> sources and find the culprit, then report a bug to the respective egg's
> author.
>
> Kon, if you're reading this: It would be nice if setup-helper could
> detect this deprecated usage and simply error.  That would temporarily
> break some eggs, but at least it would help us find the broken ones.
> In the long run, this will save everyone a world of grief (this causes
> issues with cross-compilation, static compilation, deploy mode and
> alternative repository paths in general).

>From my experience, you don't need setup-api at all when building
statically by hand, i.e. not using the setup script at all. Just have
a look at the setup script and compile the stuff you need and ignore
setup-api.

HTH,

Christian

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