Re: Chicken 5.2.0 build fails on Gnu Hurd

[Andrew Eggenberger]

Hi Evan,

The macro is not set in the chicken-config.h file.

I think the easiest way to test would probably to start with a pre-installed virtual image.

Instruction from https://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-install:

You can also get a pre-installed image and run it in qemu:

$ wget https://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/ports/current-hurd-i386/debian-hurd.img.tar.gz $ tar xzf debian-hurd.img.tar.gz $ kvm -m 1G -drive file=$(echo debian-hurd*.img),cache=writeback

I'll try to look into why it's not writing the macro definition into the generated chicken-config.h file.

Andrew Eggenberger

On Sun, Oct 18, 2020 at 11:32 PM Evan Hanson <evhan@foldling.org> wrote:

Hi Andrew,

> This is confusing because it looks like SEARCH_EXE_PATH is defined to 1 in
> Makefile.hurd.

Interesting. Can you confirm that macro is defined in the generated
chicken-config.h file?

What's the easiest way to run GNU Hurd on another Linux (e.g. Debian),
to reproduce? I used to test Hurd builds with Vagrant, but the base box
went away a few years ago and I don't know of another way to test this.

Cheers,

Evan