Re: [Chicken-users] depreciating CHICKEN_HOME

[Goetz Isenmann]

> Hm... This *might* work by setting CHICKEN_HOME, LD_LIBRARY_PATH
> and CHICKEN_REPOSITORY, but will always be a bit of a hack.
> What specific problems do you currently have? What you intend to do
> makes certainly sense, so perhaps we should try to address this.

There are a few places, where the autoconf value is used, like

  (define translator "%bindir%/chicken")
  (define default-library-files '("%libdir%/libchicken.a"))
and
  [else '("-L%libdir% -Wl,-R%libdir%")] ) )

in csc.scm.in.

Also

  (define *install-bin-path* 
    (or (foreign-value "C_INSTALL_BIN_HOME" c-string)
        (getenv "CHICKEN_HOME") ) )

in chicken-setup.scm looks suspect.

The other problem seems to be, that values derived from CHICKEN_HOME
do not always show the expected results:

After

  $ ./configure --prefix=/var/tmp/chicken-2.315 && gmake && gmake install

both

  $ /var/tmp/chicken-2.315/bin/csc -home
  /var/tmp/chicken-2.315/share/chicken
  $ env CHICKEN_HOME=/tmp/home /var/tmp/chicken-2.315/bin/csc -home
  /tmp/home

and

  $ /var/tmp/chicken-2.315/bin/chicken-setup -R
  /var/tmp/chicken-2.315/lib/chicken/1
  $ env CHICKEN_HOME=/tmp/home /var/tmp/chicken-2.315/bin/chicken-setup -R
  /tmp/home

do not use the corresponding subdir of CHICKEN_HOME.

I will play with some modifications (but not within the next days).
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