Re: Chicken-current review and commit request

On Tue, Aug 04, 2009 at 04:18:40PM +0200, Peter Bex wrote:
> I have updated wip/chicken-current to match the latest release of
> Chicken, version 4.1.0
> 
> I would appreciate it if someone could have a look at it and update
> lang/chicken with it.  Chicken 4 is backwardly incompatible with
> Chicken 3, so probably we want to keep the old chicken around as
> chicken3 until all "eggs" (extension libraries) have been ported to
> the new version.

WARNING: [license.mk] Every package should define a LICENSE.
....
Requesting http://chicken.wiki.br/releases/chicken-4.1.0.tar.gz
ftp: Error retrieving file `404 Not Found'
fetch: Unable to fetch expected file chicken-4.1.0.tar.gz
Requesting http://galinha.ucpel.tche.br/releases/chicken-4.1.0.tar.gz
ftp: Error retrieving file `404 Not Found'
fetch: Unable to fetch expected file chicken-4.1.0.tar.gz
Requesting http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/chicken-4.1.0.tar.gz

Seems like two mirrors are outdated?

Doesn't compile for me on 5.99.15/amd64 (with -j16, so excuse the
garbled output):

gcc  -shared -Wl,-R. -Wl,-L. srfi-1.import.o -o srfi-1.import.so \
          -lchicken \
          -lm
ld: ./libchicken.a(library-static.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
./libchicken.a:ld:  ./libchicken.a(library-static.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPICc
o./libchicken.au:l dc onuoltd  rneoatd  rseyamdb oslysm:b oBad valuel
sgmake[1]: :*** [lolevel.import.so] Error 1
Bad valuegmake[1]:
*** Waiting for unfinished jobs....ld: ./libchicken.a(library-static.o): relocation R_X86_64_32S against `a local symbol' can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
./libchicken.a: could not read symbols: Bad value

No other pkgsrc package depends on chicken -- do you think it's worth
the effort to re-import chicken as chicken3 and update chicken to
4.1.0?
 Thomas

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