> > This needn't be `chicken-install -init ~/tmp/foo/lib/chicken/5` ?
No, I tried it exactly as shown above. > I guess I was thrown off by the above linked thread which stated: > > ~/chicken/lib/chicken/5 > You must also use this longer path for initialization via -init > I'm not sure. There might be bugfixes. Sorry, I know this is all a bit messy. >> export CHICKEN_REPOSITORY=/home/felix/tmp/foo >> chicken-install hyde > > This doesn't need to be `chicken-install -p /home/felix/tmp/foo hyde` ? No, just as given above. I tried it a few hours ago and worked ok (with the exception of a failed hyde build, but for other reasons...) > > I tried your suggested sequence, things got stuck at the point of: > > rm -fr /var/lib/chicken/5/matchable.so > cp -r matchable.so /var/lib/chicken/5/matchable.so > cp: cannot create regular file `/var/lib/chicken/5/matchable.so': > Permission denied Is this with CHICKEN_REPOSITORY set? > > Then I did: > > # chown -R john:john /var/lib/chicken/5 > > And now things get stuck at: > > cp: cannot create regular file `/usr/bin/scss2css': Permission denied > Error: shell command failed with nonzero exit status 256: > cp -r scss2css /usr/bin/scss2css Executables get not installed in the repository, but in the BINPATH, where "chicken", "csi", etc. are installed. > >> Can you perhaps try a newer chicken version? > > I'm running Debian Linux, so I guess that'd be > chicken-boot-4.6.1-linux-x86.bz2 > as per http://code.call-cc.org/bootstrap/ ? This is only for bootstrapping from the git repository sources when you have no previous chicken installed. > > Might try that when I have more time...was hoping to be able > to stick with using the Debian package and make that work. I have no solution for the BINPATH problem. Another option would be to build a chicken from a recent release or snapshot tarball and install it in your HOME (or somewhere else, where you have full access rights) and use that instead. cheers, felix _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
