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1057	CHICKEN's tests should not require installing CHICKEN before running	sjamaan		"""make check"" doesn't work when CHICKEN isn't installed yet (worse, you may get unpredictable results if there is an older CHICKEN installed in PREFIX).  This is annoying and means people can't verify whether their build is sane *before* installing.

Also, in pkgsrc ""make check"" breaks entirely because its tool wrappers prevent the compiler and linker from reaching into the installation destination directory directly; therefore it won't be able to see chicken.h and libchicken.so in the final location.

Attached is a first attempt at a patch to make the tests work by themselves.  It's a hack; the SETUP_PREFIX stuff is all undocumented and nasty, and the deployment tests (rev-test stuff) don't work. If this is ever imported, the Windows batch file should be updated accordingly."	defect	closed	major	4.9.0	build system	4.8.x	fixed	tests