Re: [PATCH] recover CHICKEN_INSTALL_PREFIX

[Peter Bex]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 05:25:45PM +0200, felix.winkelmann@bevuta.com wrote:
> > Why are install-path and repo-path in chicken-install.scm still using
> > destination-repository instead of effective-destination-repository?
> > Those are the only places that still use it, aside from one in
> > chicken-status and chicken-uninstall.
> 
> The prefix variable is only used for designating where the build
> artifacts are to be stored, not where extensions are located or
> where .egg-info files are to be stored. It also makes sense to set
> CHICKEN_REPOSITORY_PATH in addition to CHICKEN_INSTALL_PREFIX when
> dependency extensions installed and used during the build of another
> extension are needed to be located. This _is_ confusing, no doubt
> about that, but we need a way to override install target locations,
> especially for include-files and binaries and has been requested 
> several times by users, IIRC.

It's extremely confusing and hard to use correctly, but it seems to work
as intended, so I've pushed the patch.

Cheers,
Peter

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