Re: bootstrap.sh fails on macos

Felix Winkelmann via Chicken-users <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.scheme.chicken
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Fri Oct 24, 2025 at 12:14 AM CEST, Ben via Chicken-users wrote:
> Another thing I'm trying to do (that doesn't work)
>
> $ brew install chicken
>
>[...]
>
> Syntax error (import): cannot import from undefined module
>
> 	scheme.base
>
> 	Expansion history:
>
> 	<syntax>	  (##core#begin (import (only (scheme base) make-parameter open-output-string get-output-string)))
> 	<syntax>	  (import (only (scheme base) make-parameter open-output-string get-output-string))	<--
> make: *** [library.c] Error 70
>

The current git sources for CHICKEN 6 can not be built with earlier versions,
since the library and module layout changed considerably, so the only way
to build from git sources is using a development snapshot of CHICKEN 6
or the bootstrap script. I will prepare a new snapshot soon, hopefully,
to make this process a bit easier.


cheers,
felix
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