Summary

installing srfi-13 on win8 fails (MAX_PATH is too low)

Metadata

• Id: f75920afe0231d346617fe586054ca5c6018c2c6
• Trac id: 1584
• Type: defect
• Reporter: kristianlm
• Owner:
• Cc:
• Status: closed
• Component: core tools
• Estimated difficulty:
• Resolution: fixed
• Priority: major
• Milestone: 5.1
• Version: 5.0.0
• Changetime: 2019-02-08 09:35:10 UTC
• Created: 2019-02-07 15:20:54 UTC
• Keywords:

Description

I am running C5 on win8 and ran into this: `chicken-install srfi-13` says "cannot create subprocess".

It is caused by a MAX_PATH being too low. `chicken-do.c` uses MAX_PATH to set total cmd length. my win8 MAX_PATH is 260, but my cmdline (including arguments) is longer.

If I replace MAX_PATH with 4096, it works.

Changes and comments

[2019-02-07 15:24:56 UTC] sjamaan changed component from unknown to core tools

[2019-02-07 15:24:56 UTC] sjamaan changed milestone from someday to 5.1

[2019-02-07 21:27:47 UTC] evhan changed status from new to closed

[2019-02-07 21:27:47 UTC] evhan set resolution to fixed

[2019-02-07 21:27:47 UTC] evhan wrote:

Thanks Kristian! Happily this it has already been fixed in 1e006b65 and will be included in the next release (I ran into it as well).

[2019-02-08 09:35:10 UTC] kristianlm wrote:

Ah, now that's a proper fix. Thanks!