Re: bootstrap.sh fails on macos

Hello Felix

Thanks for your help and your patience. 

>     http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/chicken-6-prelim.tar.gz

That snapshot works!!


But unfortunately the 'Crunch' egg fails with `chicken-install`

$ svn co --username anonymous --password "" https://[email protected]/svn/chicken-eggs/release/6/crunch
$ crunch/trunk
$ ~/Builds/chicken-crunch/chicken/bin/chicken-install


   /Users/ben/Builds/chicken-crunch/chicken/bin/csc -host -D compiling-extension -J -s -regenerate-import-libraries -setup-mode -I ~/Builds.home/chicken-crunch/crunch/trunk -O2 -d1 crunch.compiler.debug.scm -o ~/chicken-crunch/crunch/trunk/crunch.compiler.debug.so

Error: Module `crunch.compiler.debug' has unresolved identifiers
  In file `crunch.compiler.debug.scm':

  Unknown identifier `process-input-port'
    In procedure `connect-to-debugger' on line 353

  Unknown identifier `process-output-port'
    On line 355

Error: shell command terminated with non-zero exit status 1: '/Users/ben/Builds/chicken-crunch/chicken/bin/chicken' 'crunch.compiler.debug.scm' '-output-file' '~Builds/chicken-crunch/crunch/trunk/crunch.compiler.debug.c' '-dynamic' '-feature' 'chicken-compile-shared' '-feature' 'compiling-extension' '-emit-all-import-libraries' '-regenerate-import-libraries' '-setup-mode' '-include-path' '~/Builds/chicken-crunch/crunch/trunk' '-optimize-level' '2' '-debug-level' '1'

Error: shell command terminated with nonzero exit code
256
"sh ~/Builds/chicken-crunch/crunch/trunk/crunch.build.sh"



On Fri, Oct 24, 2025, at 1:00 PM, Felix Winkelmann wrote:
> On Fri Oct 24, 2025 at 12:05 PM CEST, Ben wrote:
>>
>> Unfortunately the 'crunch' egg, which is the reason I'm trying to build Chicken 6, fails to install
>>
>
> Yes, I'm sorry, but the current dev snapshot is out of date and doesn't reflect
> the git HEAD of the repository. I'm planning to update the snapshot but
> didn't have to time to do so, sorry, I'm currently on my own with all this...
>
> I pushed a fix for the headpad issue, so the bootstrap script _should_ work
> now. Alternatively, try this preliminary snapshot from my website:
>
>     http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/chicken-6-prelim.tar.gz
>
> Again, sorry for the inconvenience. 
>
>
> cheers,
> felix