Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH 3/3] Fix repository searching for "-link" flag and associated tests

[Peter Bex]

On Wed, Jun 21, 2017 at 12:01:48PM +1200, Evan Hanson wrote:
> On 2017-06-20 13:11, address@hidden wrote:
> > You seem to drop the reference to "destination-repository". Are you sure 
> > this is
> > right in the face of cross-compilation?
> 
> I think so. Or rather, this patch makes "-link" behave like "normal"
> compilation in that it respects CHICKEN_REPOSITORY_PATH and the
> "repository-path" parameter, which is what we want, I think. Previously,
> it would ignore those values and go straight to the target repo, so
> something/lib/chicken/9, since the "destination-repository" helper
> doesn't seem to consider C_R_P at all. I might be missing something,
> though. How is C_R_P intended to behave when cross-compiling?

I've pushed the first two patches, as they're obviously correct (we've
applied them before).  I don't quite understand how dropping the
destination-repository host/target selection will impact cross-
compilation.  Felix, can you answer Evan's question and perhaps
review the third patch?

Cheers,
Peter

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