how to build

[jkalbhenn]

the Building section of the manual begins with "make eggs"

$ make eggs
make: *** No rule to make target 'eggs'.  Stop.`

if i try ./configure first

./configure
checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for csc... yes
./configure: 2609: test: yes: unexpected operator
checking for getch in -lncurses... yes
checking for get_wch in -lncursesw... yes
checking for cbreak in -ltinfo... yes
./configure: 2754: test: yes: unexpected operator
./configure: 2757: test: yes: unexpected operator
configure: error: ncurses not found

ncurses is installed. it has files in /usr/include, /usr/lib, etc and is working with ncmpc for example.

[drewt]

Yes, ./configure should be run before make eggs. It is a mistake in the documentation.

As for the configure error, it believe it is complaining about some bash syntax that I accidentally used in the script. Can you try pulling my latest commit and running ./configure again? Hopefully I have fixed it.

Also, a warning: you may run into a segfault on the master branch. I have worked around the issue on the "tui" branch, but I haven't been able to merge this back into master yet.

Edit: disregard the above, I went ahead and backported the workaround on master.

[jkalbhenn]

./configure now completes with a success exit code, only some error messages are printed

checking for gcc... gcc
checking whether the C compiler works... yes
checking for C compiler default output file name... a.out
checking for suffix of executables...
checking whether we are cross compiling... no
checking for suffix of object files... o
checking whether we are using the GNU C compiler... yes
checking whether gcc accepts -g... yes
checking for gcc option to accept ISO C89... none needed
checking for csc... yes
./configure: 2621: test: yes: unexpected operator
checking for getch in -lncurses... yes
checking for get_wch in -lncursesw... yes
checking for cbreak in -ltinfo... yes
./configure: 2781: ./configure: NCURSES_LIBS+= -ltinfo: not found
configure: creating ./config.status
config.status: creating Makefile

my /bin/sh is indeed dash.

make eggs initially fails with a permission error

installing record-variants:0.5.1 ...
changing current directory to /tmp/temp1d8b.3937/record-variants
  '/usr/bin/csi' -bnq -setup-mode -e "(require-library setup-api)" -e "(import setup-api)" -e "(setup-error-handling)" -e "(extension-name-and-version '(\"record-variants\" \"0.5.1\"))" 'record-variants.setup'
  '/usr/bin/csc' -feature compiling-extension -setup-mode    -s -O2 -d0 record-variants.scm -j record-variants
  '/usr/bin/csc' -feature compiling-extension -setup-mode    -s -O2 -d0 record-variants.import.scm
  cp -r 'record-variants.so' '/usr/lib/chicken/8/record-variants.so'
cp: cannot create regular file '/usr/lib/chicken/8/record-variants.so': Permission denied

Error: shell command failed with nonzero exit status 256:

  cp -r 'record-variants.so' '/usr/lib/chicken/8/record-variants.so'


Error: shell command terminated with nonzero exit code
17920
"'/usr/bin/csi' -bnq -setup-mode -e \"(require-library setup-api)\" -e \"(import...
make: *** [Makefile:168: eggs] Error 1

it completes successfully with root rights. would of course be better if root rights were only needed for install.

make then works, the program starts and i can browse the library and add to the queue. will try it out.
thanks

[drewt]

Weird, I also have dash as /bin/sh but it's accepting bash syntax in the configure script for some reason :/

I believe it's possible to run make eggs without root privileges if you set the CHICKEN_REPOSITORY environment variable to somewhere that your user has write permissions (see the man page for chicken-install). I have not tried it myself.