Re: [Chicken-users] understanding the CMake build

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Thomas Chust wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Sep 2006, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
>
> > Thomas Chust wrote:
> > > >  [...] For this kind of issue, you'd need to write a trivial
> > > >  CMakeLists.txt that reproduces the problem, then get on the CMake
> > > >  mailing list and report the bug.
> > >
> > >  I'll do that if it actually annoys me and if I have too much time for
> > >  constructing a minimal example of the problem. csc -static ... works
> > >  perfectly as it should even though I removed chicken-static and
> > >  csi-static. And I can live with a build producing strange executables
> > >  which I just throw away.
> >
> > Ok, but realize, that doesn't help either Chicken or CMake get 
> > better, nor attract new users. [...]
>
> Hello,
>
> of course you are right, but this linkage issue is so small a bug, 
> which only affects *building*, not *using* CHICKEN, that I consider it 
> a rather low priority to get it fixed, now -- I've got other more 
> important projects to work on as well...

Seems pretty important if removing the bootstrap compiler toasts the 
installation.  Most people won't leave their old bootstrap compilers 
lying around.

But, we'll see if my INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES bulletproofing has any effect 
on this problem.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every