Re: [Chicken-users] porting eggs experiences and questions

[Jörg F . Wittenberger]

Hi all,

in the meantime I understood why chicken-install would not install 
dependencies:

 chicken-install -n

While messing around I did not want the egg in the current directory to be 
installed. Just the dependencies.

Apparently chicken-install passes the -n switch down to the dependencies it 
need to install.

Those are then not installed, which makes chicken-install barf at the 
depending eggs.

Maybe it makes more sense to have the -n switch only in effect for the egg 
in the current directory while still installing dependencies.

Best

/Jörg

On Aug 17 2018, Jörg F. Wittenberger wrote:

> > > * Observation: chicken-install does not install dependencies
> > >
> > > This is just odd: The .egg file contains (dependencies srfi-18);
> > > chicken-install did the download but not install it. So compilation
> > > failed until I manually did
> > >
> > > chicken-install srfi-18
> >
> > That's weird.  We don't observe this behavior on any of the automated
> > tests (http://tests.call-cc.org).
>
> It is.  But it seems consistent in my setup.
>
> I tried: `chicken-install srfi-13`: this did the download for srfi-14 
> compiled and failed to install srfi-13.