id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	version	resolution	keywords	cc	difficulty
1827	chicken-install creates empty egg-info files	Mario Domenech Goulart		"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"	defect	closed	minor	5.4	core tools	5.3.0	worksforme	chicken-install		hard