Re: [Chicken-users] depreciating CHICKEN_HOME

[felix winkelmann]

On 6/9/06, Brandon J. Van Every <address@hidden> wrote:
> Is the msvc vcbuild.bat version of Chicken the only one that relies on
> CHICKEN_HOME?  If so, I suggest it be depreciated for all other
> installations.  If we've gone to the trouble of hardwiring a bunch of
> directories for csc.exe, I don't see why CHICKEN_HOME should have the
> right to mess them up.  Unless I'm missing something about how
> CHICKEN_HOME is actually used by people.  In the sources, it looks like
> a hack to allow vcbuild.bat to install in a flat directory when everyone
> else has a hierarchical directory structure.

Sorry, I can't follow this at all: vcbuild.bat doesn't use CHICKEN_HOME,
also makefile.vc doesn't. For Windows platforms built via makefile.vc, csc.scm
uses CHICKEN_HOME, as this seems to be the only decent way of specifiying an
installation destination. If you do it through cmake, we can (and should) change
csc.scm.in to use the configured destination instead of CHICKEN_HOME.


(felix)