Re: GIT version: autocompiling startup file

[Hans Aberg <haberg-1@telia.com>]

On 26 Jan 2011, at 22:10, Andy Wingo wrote:

>>>> When starting with 'guile -l', autocompiling fails, even with an
>>>> empty file.
>>>>
>> I found the error:
>>
>> On my computer, the directory ~/.cache/ had already been created by
>> another program, setting another owner so that guile could not create
>> its directories in it. Then, in the function compiled-file-name in   
>> file
>> system/base/compile.scm, the exception from ensure-writable-dir  is
>> converted to #f, which is the argument after "string" in the error
>> message above.
>
> Thanks for the detailed report.  I believe I've fixed this in git to
> give a more sensible error.

On Mac OS X, there are two locations for cached objects; when put  
there, the system will assume they can be regenerated and not be  
backed up. These would be
   ~/Library/Caches/Guile/
   /Library/Caches/Guile/
if keeping to Mac tradition using uppercase names. One can also mark  
~/.cache/ to be the same kind of area.