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

[Brandon J. Van Every]

John Cowan wrote:
> Okay.  Progress.  I have now built the Darcs head (unchanged
> since last night my time) using CMake.  I then hard-linked
> /usr/local/bin/libchicken.dll to /usr/local/bin/cygchicken.dll.
> All is well; (use srfi-1) works perfectly.
>
> Felix:  However, this does not account for the continuing misbehavior
> of the autoconf toolchain, though it may provide a useful clue.
> My previous messages continue to apply.
>   

I will again agitate for merciless termination of cygchicken.

> Brandon:  "ccmake /opt/chicken" from a different directory still
> generates and builds into /opt/chicken; the other directory remains empty.
> The same is true for "cmake /opt/chicken".
>
>   

This is a CMake FAQ item.
http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ

I run an out-of-source build but CMake generates in-source anyway. Why?

This means that there is a CMakeCache.txt file in the source tree, 
possibly as part of an existing in-source build. If CMake is given the 
path to a directory with a CMakeCache.txt file, it assumes the directory 
is a build tree. Therefore if one runs "cmake ../mysrc" to build 
out-of-source but there is a mysrc/CMakeCache.txt file then cmake will 
treat mysrc as the build tree.

This is a side-effect of the feature that allows "cmake ." to be used to 
regenerate a build tree. The behavior will not be changed because mixing 
in-source and out-of-source builds is not safe anyway (configured 
headers may be found in the wrong place).
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Cheers,
Brandon Van Every