[Chicken-users] Chicken-setup 2.3 fails on Cygwin

[John Cowan]

I built Chicken 2.3 from source on a Cygwin system that had no previous
copy of Chicken on it.  It built and installed successfully, but
chicken-setup consistently fails as follows:

$ chicken-setup numbers

The extension numbers does not exist.
Do you want to download it ? (yes/no/abort) [yes] yes
downloading catalog ...
downloading catalog from www.call-with-current-continuation.org ...
downloading numbers.egg from (www.call-with-current-continuation.org eggs/ 80) 
...
Error: (change-directory) can not change current directory - No such file or 
directory: "numbers.egg.dir"

Creating numbers.egg.dir myself does not help.  It does not matter which
egg I try to install; repeating this run correctly skips the download step
but then crashes with the same error.

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other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague.  --Edsger Dijkstra