CHICKEN-SETUP(1)CHICKEN-SETUP(1)NAMEchicken-setup - install extension libraries for Chicken Scheme
SYNOPSISchicken-setup [ option ] [ extension ]
DESCRIPTIONchicken-setup is a program that compiles and installs a prepackaged
extension library. Extension libraries are either plain Scheme files
with the .scm file-extension or gzipped tar files with the file-exten‐
sion .egg Single Scheme files are compiled into a dynamically loadable
file and installed in the extension repository. More complex installa‐
tion procedures can be performed by packaging an extension in an .egg
archive, that in addition to the source files contains a Scheme script
of the same name as the library, but with the .setup file-extension.
After extracting the files the setup script will be loaded and exe‐
cuted. If no extension name is given on the command-line, then any
existing .setup scripts in the current directory are processed.
chicken-setup is a full Scheme interpreter with the same functionality
as csi but with a number of additional procedures and macros to sim‐
plify the building and installation of extension libraries. See the
Chicken manual for more information.
OPTIONS-h, -help
Shows a summary of options and exits.
-V, -version
Shows the version of chicken-setup and exits.
-release
Shows release number of CHICKEN and exits.
-R, -repository [PATH]
If PATH is not given, prints the location of the extension
repository. If PATH is given, specifies the location for the
extension repository The default repository path is the instal‐
lation library directory (usually /usr/local/lib/chicken , or
(if set) the directory given in the environment variable
CHICKEN_REPOSITORY
-u, -uninstall
Removes the given extension from the repository.
-H, -host HOSTNAME[:PORT]
Specifies alternative host for downloading extensions. PORT may
be omitted and defaults to 80.
-p, -proxy HOSTNAME[:PORT]
Connects to server via proxy. PORT may be omitted and defaults
to 80.
-l, -list
Lists all installed extensions and exits, or show extension-
information of extensions given on the command-line (following
this option).
-r, -run FILENAME
Loads and executes given file.
-P, -program-path [PATH]
If PATH is not given, prints the location where executable files
will be installed. If PATH is given, specifies the location for
installing executable files.
-s, -script FILENAME
Executes the given script with remaining arguments and exits.
-f, -fetch
Only download, don't extract, build or install.
-v, -verbose
Displays additional information (mainly for debugging).
-k, -keep
Keeps intermediate files after building and installing.
-c, -csc-option option
Passes option as an extra argument to invocations of the com‐
piler-driver ( csc ). This works only if csc is invoked as
(run (csc ...))
-d, -dont-ask
Does not ask the user before trying to download required exten‐
sions.
-n, -no-install
Does not install generated binaries and support files after
building. Any invocations of install-program , install-exten‐
sion , install-script or copy-file will be no-ops.
-i, -docindex
Displays the path to the index-page of any installed extension-
documentation. If the index page does not exist, it is created.
-e, -eval EXPRESSION
Evaluates the given expression(s).
-t, -test
If the .egg extension archive contains a directory named tests
and this directory includes a file named run.scm then this file
is executed (with tests being the current working directory).
-host-extension
Compiles any extensions in "host" mode.
-ls EXTENSION
Lists the installed files for the given extension.
-fetch-tree
Downloads and prints the repository catalog to standard output.
-create-tree PATH
Creates repository catalog from SVN checkout.
-tree FILENAME
Uses the repository catalog stored in FILENAME instead of down‐
loading it.
-svn URL
Fetches extension sources from an SVN repository instead of
downloading egg from egg server.
-svn-trunk URL
Fetches extension sources from an SVN repository instead of
downloading egg from egg server. If subdirectory trunk exists in
the SVN repository, the egg sources are fetched from that loca‐
tion.
-local PATH
Fetches extension sources from the local filesystem at PATH
instead of downloading egg from egg server.
-install-prefix PATH
Specifies alternative installation prefix. The installation
paths for all executable files, examples, and files installed
with the copy-file and move-file procedures will be prepended by
this prefix, if it is specified.
-revision REVISION
Specifies the SVN revision that to check out (only useful in
combination with the -svn option).
-build-prefix PATH
Specifies the location where chicken-setup will create build
directories. The default location is the value of environment
variable CHICKEN_TMPDIR , TMPDIR or /tmp/chicken-{MAJOR-VER‐
SION}-build-{USER} if none of those variables are found in the
environment. If /tmp does not exist or is not writeable, then
the build directory is {HOME}/tmp/chicken-{MAJOR-VER‐
SION}-build-{USER}
-download-path PATH
Specifies the location where chicken-setup will save downloaded
files The default is {BUILD-PREFIX}/downloads)
-- Ignores all further arguments.
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
CHICKEN_PREFIX
The installation prefix where CHICKEN Scheme and its support
files and libraries are located. Defaults to the installation
time prefix given when configuring the system.
CHICKEN_INSTALL_PREFIX
An alternative installation prefix that will be prepended to
extension installation paths if specified.
CHICKEN_REPOSITORY
The path where extension libraries are installed. Defaults to
the package-library path selected during configuration (usually
$prefix/lib/chicken/<binary-version> )
CHICKEN_SETUP_OPTIONS
A string with default options that should be passed to every
invocation of chicken-setup
CHICKEN_TMPDIR
The location where egg files will be unpacked and extensions
compiled.
DOCUMENTATION
More information can be found in the Chicken User's Manual
BUGS
Submit bug reports by e-mail to chicken-janitors@nongnu.org , pre‐
ferrably using the chicken-bug tool.
AUTHORS
Felix L. Winkelmann and the Chicken Team
SEE ALSOchicken(1)csc(1)chicken-bug(1)
20 May 2008 CHICKEN-SETUP(1)
