[Chicken-users] CHICKEN_REPOSITORY (not working?)

[Jeronimo Pellegrini]

Hi,

The manual tells me that in order to not install eggs as
root I should set CHICKEN-REPOSITORY, call 
chicken-install -i and then just use the new repository -
but it isn't working for me (see below). Is the manual
outdated?

Thanks,
J.

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$ echo $CHICKEN_REPOSITORY    # OK, it isn't set...

$ export CHICKEN_REPOSITORY=~/chicken/
$ chicken-install -init

Error: (require) cannot load extension: setup-download

$ unset CHICKEN_REPOSITORY  # let's try it different...
$ chicken-install -init ~/chicken/
copying required files to /home/jeronimo/chicken/ ...
  cp -r /usr/local/lib/chicken/5/setup-api.so /home/jeronimo/chicken/
  cp -r /usr/local/lib/chicken/5/setup-api.import.so /home/jeronimo/chicken/
  cp -r /usr/local/lib/chicken/5/setup-download.so /home/jeronimo/chicken/
  cp -r /usr/local/lib/chicken/5/setup-download.import.so 
/home/jeronimo/chicken/
  ...
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OK, I initialzied the new repository! But chicken-install still won't use it:

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$ CHICKEN_REPOSITORY=~/chicken/ chicken-install test
...
installing test: ...
changing current directory to /tmp/chicken-install-2aa.tmp/test
  /usr/local/bin/csi -bnq -setup-mode -e "(require-library setup-api)" -e 
"(import setup-api)" -e "(extension-name-and-version '(\"test\" \"\"))" 
/tmp/chicken-install-2aa.tmp/test/test.setup
  /usr/local/bin/csc -feature compiling-extension -setup-mode    -s -O2 -d0 
test.scm -j test

Warning: global variable `test#test-group-push!' is never used
  /usr/local/bin/csc -feature compiling-extension -setup-mode    -s -O2 -d0 
test.import.scm
  rm -fr /usr/local/lib/chicken/5/test.so
  cp -r test.so /usr/local/lib/chicken/5/test.so
cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/lib/chicken/5/test.so': Permission 
denied

shell command failed with nonzero exit status 256:

  cp -r test.so /usr/local/lib/chicken/5/test.so

Error: shell command terminated with nonzero exit code
17920
"/usr/local/bin/csi -bnq -setup-mode -e \"(require-library setup-api)\" -e 
\"(im...
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