Re: GCC and Chicken-Scheme compilation

[pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)]

On Thu, Jan 30, 2020 at 09:33:24PM +0000, Ekaitz at ElenQ Technology wrote:
> I tested and it works!

:)


> The problem is I thought chicken was going to install all the necessary 
> tooling but it didn't. So I needed to install gcc-toolchain by hand.
> 
> Why doesn't chicken include gcc-toolchain as a dependency then?
> 
> Is there any reason or do we need to add it in the package definition?
> 
> Thank you!


Possibly if r-irkernel propagates the R toolchain
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-patches/2020-01/msg00255.html>
then Chicken should propagate the GCC toolchain?  Don’t know.

I find a few open Guix bugs on other issues with chicken.

I find unconcluded (?) discussions on this here:

https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2016-06/msg00131.html
continued as:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2016-07/msg00004.html

I suppose there is no reason and someone just needs to fix Chicken.

Regards,
Florian