[Chicken-users] build failure and some questions about using chicken-belt

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Hello,

I would like to transition from my current system-wide installation of 
Chicken 4.13.0 to a coop of different Chickens installed in ~/chickens, 
managed by chicken-belt. Namely, I want to have 4.13.0, 5.0.0, and a 
cross-chicken for MinGW (most likely based on 5.0.0) available.

Steps taken so far:

- create ~/chickens and set CHICKENS env var
- Download & extracted the 4.13.0 and 5.0.0. tarballs

Now trying to build 4.13.0 with

$ make PLATFORM=linux PREFIX=$CHICKEN/4.13.0

which fails with

cat: buildid: No such file or directory
cat: buildtag.h: No such file or directory
chicken  build-version.scm -optimize-level 2 -include-path . 
-include-path ./ -inline -ignore-repository -feature chicken-bootstrap 
-no-warnings -specialize -types ./types.db   -explicit-use -no-trace 
-output-file build-version.c
clang -fno-strict-aliasing -fwrapv -DHAVE_CHICKEN_CONFIG_H 
-DC_ENABLE_PTABLES -c -Os -fomit-frame-pointer  -DC_BUILDING_LIBCHICKEN 
build-version.c -o build-version-static.o -I. -I./
build-version.c:13:10: fatal error: 'buildtag.h' file not found
#include "buildtag.h"
         ^~~~~~~~~~~~
1 error generated.
make: *** [rules.make:131: build-version-static.o] Error 1

The build for 5.0.0 fails with the same error. How can I resolve this?

Also, I'm a bit unsure how to proceed afterwards. My plan was as follows:

- build 4.13.0
- uninstall the system-wide install
- add $CHICKENS/4.13.0 to PATH
- chicken-install chicken-belt
- chicken-select 4.13.0
- remove $CHICKENS/4.13.0 from path, add $CHICKENS/use-this/bin
- build 5.0.0.

Would that work? Anything else I need to consider?


Best wishes,
-Heinz