Re: chicken scheme

[Ludovic Courtès]

John J Foerch <address@hidden> skribis:

> Installing gcc-toolchain helped, and there are no more compilation
> errors.  Another error came up in trying to install the built files.
> Here is my log:
>
>   $ chicken-install matchable
>   retrieving ...
>   connecting to host "chicken.kitten-technologies.co.uk", port 80 ...
>   requesting "/henrietta.cgi?name=matchable&mode=default" ...
>   reading response ...
>   HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>   Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 21:36:20 GMT
>   Server: Apache/2.2.29 (Unix) DAV/2 SVN/1.8.10 PHP/5.4.32 mod_fastcgi/2.4.6
>   Connection: close
>   Transfer-Encoding: chunked
>   Content-Type: text/plain
>   reading chunks ...
>   reading files ...
>     ./match-simple.scm
>     ./match.scm
>     ./matchable-test.scm
>     ./matchable.meta
>     ./matchable.scm
>     ./matchable.setup
>    matchable located at /tmp/temp112c.2170/matchable
>   checking platform for `matchable' ...
>   checking dependencies for `matchable' ...
>   install order:
>   ("matchable")
>   installing matchable:3.6 ...
>   changing current directory to /tmp/temp112c.2170/matchable
>     '/gnu/store/avfhy6zgqmxgbvjrava16qyh60y6xwzv-chicken-4.11.0/bin/csi' -bnq 
> -setup-mode -e "(require-library setup-api)" -e "(import setup-api)" -e 
> "(setup-error-handling)" -e "(extension-name-and-version '(\"matchable\" 
> \"3.6\"))" 'matchable.setup'
>     '/gnu/store/avfhy6zgqmxgbvjrava16qyh60y6xwzv-chicken-4.11.0/bin/csc' 
> -feature compiling-extension -setup-mode    -s -O3 -d0 matchable.scm -j 
> matchable
>     '/gnu/store/avfhy6zgqmxgbvjrava16qyh60y6xwzv-chicken-4.11.0/bin/csc' 
> -feature compiling-extension -setup-mode    -s -O3 -d0 matchable.import.scm
>     cp -r 'matchable.so' 
> '/gnu/store/avfhy6zgqmxgbvjrava16qyh60y6xwzv-chicken-4.11.0/var/lib/chicken/8/matchable.so'
>   cp: cannot create regular file 
> ‘/gnu/store/avfhy6zgqmxgbvjrava16qyh60y6xwzv-chicken-4.11.0/var/lib/chicken/8/matchable.so’:
>  Read-only file system
>
>   Error: shell command failed with nonzero exit status 256:
>
>     cp -r 'matchable.so' 
> '/gnu/store/avfhy6zgqmxgbvjrava16qyh60y6xwzv-chicken-4.11.0/var/lib/chicken/8/matchable.so'
>
>
>   Error: shell command terminated with nonzero exit code
>   17920
>   "'/gnu/store/avfhy6zgqmxgbvjrava16qyh60y6xwzv-chicken-4.11.0/bin/csi' -bnq 
> -setu...

I think we need to build CHICKEN such that it uses /var/lib instead of
/gnu/store/…-chicken/var/lib (the latter is immutable.)  I suppose
that’s how it works on other distros, right?  (With this approach only
root can install software, though.)

Do you know how to make this change?

Thanks,
Ludo’.