Subject: Bug#22366 Status? Chicken Scheme release tarballs ship non-source C code

From: zimoun <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 01:33:45 +0200

Dear David,

The bug report [1] opened more than 4 years ago about the Chicken
bootstrapping is still pending.

I am not sure to understand these lines; quoting you [1]:

<<
    Generated from optimizer.scm by the CHICKEN compiler

This is *not* source code, it's a binary disguised as C source code.

Why is it an issue for bootstrappability?

Thank you in advance for any comments.
Or could this bug report be closed?

All the best,
simon

[1] https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=22366