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William A. Hoffman wrote:
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<pre wrap="">At 05:07 PM 9/9/2006, Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Not anymore! A Chicken tarball distribution is now fully bootable without Chicken, under both CMake and Autoconf. We have a development snapshot on the Chicken homepage, which only works on some platforms.
We've fixed most of the problems with that snapshot; it's about time for another one. We have a CMake script that builds a distribution by typing "make dist" . It actually runs the Autotools and includes everything needed for that as well; it's a unified distribution. It's now the canonical method for building a Chicken distro.
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Sure, but maybe he was building from darcs in which case it needs chicken.
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Actually he probably was building from Darcs and probably did need
Chicken. But he didn't say this was his problem. He hasn't said what
his Chicken problems actually were; I've asked him to post his errors.<br>
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<pre wrap="">Anyway, I don't think the problem here was a lack of CMake documentation.
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Not for building Chicken on MinGW / MSYS, at any rate. On MacOS X,
maybe. Depends on if there are any weird requirements I'm unaware of,
that he tried to look up and then supply. Watcom, maybe; haven't tried
it myself. I said I'd support it if he actually needs it + does
regular testing. Otherwise, it doesn't make a lot of sense for me to
take the trouble, if nobody's actually using it.<br>
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<pre wrap="">He did not want to write a cmake list file he just wanted to run cmake.
That should be documented by the project.
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It is, and has been for quite some time, in INSTALL-CMake.txt.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Brandon Van Every<br>
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