Opened 9 months ago
Closed 10 days ago
#1827 closed defect (worksforme)
chicken-install creates empty egg-info files
| Reported by: | Mario Domenech Goulart | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | minor | Milestone: | 5.4 |
| Component: | core tools | Version: | 5.3.0 |
| Keywords: | chicken-install | Cc: | |
| Estimated difficulty: | hard |
Description
chicken-install creates empty egg-info files in some cases. This led to errors like
Error: (assq) bad argument type: #!eof
Felix submitted a patch (224377d390456d9bd4ee5f43f44cea7c0872a08e) that handled those cases and printed a better error message, but the issue is still lurking somewhere.
I took a look at IRC logs and and saw that we had at least four cases like that, two on Windows and two on Linux. We have traces of three of those issues in paste.call-cc.org and in pastebin.com:
- http://paste.call-cc.org/paste?id=476adbc8ef7b47d8a7ce9ccd7dc201d4737de7b7
- http://paste.call-cc.org/paste?id=a7c9d3bd2dbc8837b02b418a33f6d7c5ca9d9455
- https://pastebin.com/e2BdgGGC
The eggs that seem to trigger the problem, according to the records we have, are:
- apropos
- check-errors
- math
- srfi-45
See this thread on chicken-users for more details: https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2023-10/msg00002.html
Change History (2)
comment:1 Changed 9 months ago by
| Milestone: | someday → 5.4 |
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comment:2 Changed 10 days ago by
| Resolution: | → worksforme |
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| Status: | new → closed |
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We haven't seen more reports of issues related to this ticket, so I'm closing it. Now with 224377d390456d9bd4ee5f43f44cea7c0872a08e we will have a clearer error message when users run into this issue (if ever -- in which case this ticket can be reopened).