Re: [Chicken-users] chicken crashes when trying to install srfi-19

[Ian Oversby]

> Well, you won't like this. Using Chicken 2.423 everything, including  
> srfi-19, built ok. I am using a Msys/MinGW environment. (Took ~2hrs  to 
> compile Chicken, w/ < 8 modules changed. You can see why I don't  do this 
> more often.)

I'll update my chicken to the latest stuff in darcs and see if I get the 
same behaviour.

> The only change I made was to remove '(register-feature 'srfi-29)'  from 
> "srif-29.scm". So you could get the current srfi29 egg & try  building 
> again, but I doubt that is the problem.
>
> However when I attempt to use srfi-19 I get an "Error: (car) bad  argument 
> type: ()" followed by the usual feedback for loading .dlls.  While it loads 
> all the needed .dll files the exported variables for  srfi-19 are not, 
> exported that is. Everything else seems to be though.
>
> It seems the problem is w/ numbers. Just doing a '(use numbers)' in  csi 
> will show the same error. (And it tries to load "numbers- base.dll" again, 
> humm.) But '(use srfi-29)', for example, doesn't  have any problems.
>
> I will continue looking,
> Kon

Okay, thank you.  Most appreciated.

Ian