From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Thompson, David" Subject: bug#22366: Chicken Scheme release tarballs ship non-source C code Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2016 13:54:37 -0500 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43937) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aJQZT-0008GH-23 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2016 13:55:03 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aJQZS-0006Ak-9T for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2016 13:55:02 -0500 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:60327) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aJQZS-0006Ag-6P for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2016 13:55:02 -0500 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84) (envelope-from ) id 1aJQZS-0001Ma-1h for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2016 13:55:02 -0500 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43856) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aJQZ5-0008Cq-JX for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2016 13:54:40 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aJQZ4-00063c-T1 for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2016 13:54:39 -0500 Received: from mail-yk0-x22f.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4002:c07::22f]:33473) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aJQZ4-00063Y-Nl for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 13 Jan 2016 13:54:38 -0500 Received: by mail-yk0-x22f.google.com with SMTP id k129so476823013yke.0 for ; Wed, 13 Jan 2016 10:54:38 -0800 (PST) List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: 22366@debbugs.gnu.org Because Chicken Scheme's compiler is self-hosting, and because it compiles to C as an intermediate form, the maintainers circumvented the bootstrapping problem by shipping generated C code for the compiler. Many *.c files feature a comment that starts like this: Generated from optimizer.scm by the CHICKEN compiler This is *not* source code, it's a binary disguised as C source code. To resolve this bug, we need to delete these generated files from the source tarball and figure out how to bootstrap Chicken without them. Maybe someone who actively uses Chicken knows how to do this? - Dave