id summary reporter owner description type status priority milestone component version resolution keywords cc difficulty 1307 invalid number of parameters in install target on Windows zmyrgel "I tried to install chicken on windows following the instructions from https://wiki.call-cc.org/compiling-chicken-on-windows-xp-with-mingw but the install part failed with following: {{{ 1 File(s) copied xcopy /Y .\feathers.1 ""C:\chicken\share\man\man1"" .\feathers.1 1 File(s) copied mkdir ""C:\chicken\share\chicken\doc\manual"" xcopy /Y .\manual-html\* ""C:\chicken\share\chicken\doc\manual"" 0 File(s) copied xcopy /Y .\README ""C:\chicken\share\chicken\doc"" .\README 1 File(s) copied xcopy /Y .\LICENSE ""C:\chicken\share\chicken\doc"" .\LICENSE 1 File(s) copied xcopy /Y .\setup.defaults ""C:\chicken\share\chicken"" .\setup.defaults 1 File(s) copied xcopy /Y .\feathers.tcl ""C:\chicken/share/chicken"" Invalid number of parameters .\rules.make:415: recipe for target 'install-other-files' failed mingw32-make: *** [install-other-files] Error 4 C:\Users\tmy\Downloads\chicken-4.11.0> }}} Seems DATADIR variable is using wrong separators so the xcopy mistakes path as command argument. Replacing the path arguments separaters with backslashes made the install target complete succesfully." defect closed minor someday build system 4.11.0 fixed medium