Re: [Chicken-users] How can I check a new build of chicken?

[Christian Kellermann]

* John Long <address@hidden> [121116 09:59]:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 08:42:29AM +0100, Christian Kellermann wrote:
> > * John Long <address@hidden> [121116 06:18]:
> > > On Thu, Nov 15, 2012 at 07:18:13PM +0100, Christian Kellermann wrote:
> > > > For what it's worth here's my Chicken 4.7.0 port for OpenBSD.
> > > > zmyrgel's work supercedes this I think.
> > > >
> > > > http://pestilenz.org/~ckeen/chicken.tgz
> > >
> > > Christian thank you! This builds fine on 5.2 and csc builds the foo.scm
> > > program fine. I did notice libchicken is not linked with libffi though. Is
> > > this needed for anything?
> >
> > Current chicken does not use libffi, if that requirement is still in
> > there then it's a bug.
>
> No problem, good to know. I saw it in 2.6 and didn't know whether it should
> be in later builds. There is no requirement, just a misunderstanding on my
> part. Sorry for the false alarm.
>
> > What you can do is to just crank up the chicken version in the port
> > Makefile to 4.8.0. I think it should still work fine and you will get an
> > uptodate chicken. Could you try this?
>
> Yes, sure. The only thing is the checksums/hashes will break and I think
> that will stop the port from building. I need to figure out those are
> generated unless you know offhand.

make makesum
make update-plist (or however that is spelled, see the man page)

Cheers,

Christian

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