Summary

setup-helper setup does not respect CHICKEN_INCLUDE_PATH

Metadata

• Id: 30285be30068cb65b8f6b217e74b823684ffa169
• Trac id: 1324
• Type: defect
• Reporter: retroj
• Owner: kon
• Cc:
• Status: closed
• Component: extensions
• Estimated difficulty:
• Resolution: wontfix
• Priority: major
• Milestone: someday
• Version: 4.11.0
• Changetime: 2017-08-25 14:19:20 UTC
• Created: 2016-08-30 17:37:37 UTC
• Keywords:

Description

In the setup-helper egg, its setup includes the following step:

   (copy-file "setup-helper.scm" (chicken-home))

This fails with a warning if `chicken-home` is read-only, and advises that it will be necessary to use CHICKEN_INCLUDE_PATH to use setup-helper. Instead of only trying `(chicken-home)`, it should respect CHICKEN_INCLUDE_PATH itself if that variable is set, like eggs that use setup-helper do, via `copy-to-home`.

Changes and comments

[2016-08-30 17:39:48 UTC] mario changed status from new to assigned

[2016-08-30 17:39:48 UTC] mario set owner to kon

[2016-08-30 21:10:41 UTC] kon wrote:

Usage of setup-helper as an include, rather than a module, is deprecated. Doing anything to support this usage doesn't make much sense to me.

[2017-08-25 14:19:20 UTC] sjamaan changed status from assigned to closed

[2017-08-25 14:19:20 UTC] sjamaan set resolution to wontfix