Thanks for your replies regarding this. I've just managed to install easyffi by removing the -G option from easyffi.setup.
But it looks like I'll have to have a go at self-compilation. Being a Debian user I'm extremely unused to this sort of thing. Wish me luck ;-) On Thursday 07 December 2006 18:15, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote: > Hello Ivan, > > On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 13:04:57 -0500 Ivan Raikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think even the most simple kind of Chicken/egg versioning would > > go a long way. For example, I can build easyffi and use it in Chicken > > 2.3 if I simply remove the -G option. So if chicken-setup supported > > different build commands for different versions of Chicken, this would > > make packaging Chicken code a whole lot easier. In my case, I want to > > provide my software as Debian packages, and so I am stuck with > > whatever version of Chicken is available in the current Debian stable > > release. > > Would it be difficult to make Debian a little more up-to-date > regarding to Chicken? 2.3 is quite old. > > Or maybe we should have an "unofficial" Chicken build for Debian and > its derivatives ([K,X]Ubuntu, Knoppix etc). I don't know about dpkg > packaging and compatibility among distributions .deb packages, so I > have no idea if it's feasible, easy or even worth. > I would certainly use a Chicken Debian repository if someone were to make one. Cheers, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis Sonic Arts Research Archive http://www.sara.uea.ac.uk/ JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- _______________________________________________ Chicken-users mailing list Chicken-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/chicken-users
