You may want to ask on the chicken-users list (chicken-users@nongnu.org, subscribe at <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lists.nongnu.org&#x2F;mailman&#x2F;listinfo&#x2F;chicken-users" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lists.nongnu.org&#x2F;mailman&#x2F;listinfo&#x2F;chicken-users</a>). The current list of maintainers is at (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.call-cc.org&#x2F;maintainers" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.call-cc.org&#x2F;maintainers</a>), you could also contact them directly. Or on free node&#x27;s #chicken<p>Now, the C source is not included in the repository itself, so if you are (somehow) building from that(for instance, you already have a working chicken), you are ok. They are only included in the &quot;release tarballs&quot;.<p>How does your package manager get around bootstrapping compilers, in general? Guile&#x27;s approach requires maintaining a one-shot interpreter&#x2F;compiler in C, that&#x27;s only ever used once. I don&#x27;t think all projects do that.