Hi Daniel, On Thu, 15 Apr 2021 18:45:24 +0200 Daniel Ziltener <[email protected]> wrote:
> I started building Chicken from the git repository as a "Nightly Build". > Currently, there are only RPM packages, DEB might follow later. The packages > are in my personal Chicken repository on openSUSE's OBS service and are > available for openSUSE, CentOS, Fedora, Mageia, RHEL, and SLE: > > https://software.opensuse.org//download.html? > project=home%3Azilti%3Achicken&package=chicken-git > > The packages are compiled with the respective distribution's default C > compiler. > > (The "normal" Chicken 5.2.0 builds are available for a wide range of RPM and > DEB distributions here: https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/ > zilti:/chicken/ ) Nice! Thanks for sharing that. > That aside, since the upcoming release will likely support the Tiny C > Compiler, is there interest in packages of Chicken compiled with TCC? If so, > any package name suggestions - probably chicken-tcc? Also, at that point I'd > add support for the Alternatives tool on RPM distributions so the different > versions could be installed in parallel. Please note that TCC has to be patched to compile some eggs. We've been using 0.9.27 with VSTACK_SIZE (see tcc.h) set to 1024 instead of the default 256. > I also think about renaming the packages from "chicken" to "chicken5" to > reflect the major versions. Sounds like a good idea. All the best. Mario -- http://parenteses.org/mario
