Re: [Chicken-users] Darcs-head Chicken broken on Cygwin

[Brandon J. Van Every]

John Cowan wrote:
> Using the autoconf tool chain, everything builds and
> installs fine, but "(use srfi-1)", or any other unit,
> fails with:
>
> Error: (load-library) unable to load library
> srfi-1
> "No such file or directory"
>
>         Call history:
>
>         <eval>          (load-library (quote srfi-1))   <--
>
> CMake is even worse off.  Doing "cmake ." crashes with:
>
> CMake Error: File /opt/chicken/vars.cmake.in does not exist.
> CMake Error: Error in cmake code at
> /opt/chicken/boot/CMakeLists.txt:223:
> CONFIGURE_FILE Problem configuring file
> -- Configuring done
>   

I built CMake Cygwin this afternoon and had no problems.  "csi -R 
srfi-1" worked fine.

If you are stumbling on vars.cmake.in, then somehow you do not have the 
most current sources, or else your Makefiles are based on an old 
CMakeList.txt.  I will hazard a guess that you haven't pulled Darcs 
up-to-the-minute, or else you haven't built cleanly.  Best practice with 
CMake is to do an out-of-source directory build, and when in doubt, to 
delete the target directory and start with nothing.  It isn't strictly 
necessary to start clean, and most times you don't need to, but when in 
doubt start clean.

> This is very bad.  I will revert to Chicken 2.315 for the time being.
>
>   

If my prognostications are correct, then my future advice is, in the 
style of The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy:

 "Don't Panic"


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every