Re: [Chicken-hackers] [PATCH] Use name from egg file when installing types and inline files

[felix . winkelmann]

> Well, actually, I’m not sure what makes more sense. I think it’s
> strange that types and inline files are relative paths in the install
> script while every other file is an absolute path.

That was an omission, it should be relative.

>
> The other thing I find strange, is that the doc says that the
> (types-file) and (inline-file) declarations “Specifies that a
> "type-database" file should be generated and installed…”, but currently
> they don’t produce any code to generate them.

That's a bug in the documentation - the name is optional.

>
> All is left to do so is passing `-ot` and `-oi` to csc, through
> (link-options) for example, and thus the .egg file writer can’t put an
> absolute path for those options because there is nothing in the .egg
> file specification to do so.

I don't quite understand, but the options should be passed, yet.

I will provide a patch.


felix