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[PATCH] Chicken build system + some example eggs

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From: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
To: raingloom <raingloom <at> riseup.net>
Cc: 43976 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#43976] [PATCH] Chicken build system + some example eggs
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 2020 12:23:30 +0100

Hi,

raingloom <raingloom <at> riseup.net> skribis:

> Well, CHICKEN_IMPORT_PATH seems to just be some kind of historical
> baggage, at least as far as I can tell. It is not mentioned anywhere on
> https://wiki.call-cc.org/man/5 and from what I deciphered from the
> sources, the only time it's used it gets prepended to
> CHICKEN_REPOSITORY_PATH.
>
> I removed the search path and things still seem to work. It was
> probably used in earlier version of Chicken and Nix just never removed
> it. Didn't find any related issues either.
> I think I'll comment it out for now but leave it in? If there are no
> issues with it a few months after merging, it can probably be deleted
> entirely...

I’m not familiar with Chicken.  The only advice I could give is to refer
to the Chicken documentation before checking how other distros do it,
it’s probably safer.

> Possibly more important: I noticed some warnings in some builds about
> cp(1). So far it hasn't caused any issues. Gonna fix this, then I think
> it'll be mergeable.

Yup weird.

Anyway, let me know when you have a v2!

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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