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From: Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com>
To: Hans Aberg <haberg-1@telia.com>
Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GIT version: autocompiling startup file
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 22:10:01 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3ei7zcqxi.fsf@unquote.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5EA77F96-7EA8-49D8-B8B6-D84D52D11334@telia.com> (Hans Aberg's message of "Fri, 21 Jan 2011 11:04:24 +0100")

On Fri 21 Jan 2011 11:04, Hans Aberg <haberg-1@telia.com> writes:

> On 21 Jan 2011, at 00:07, Mark Harig 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.

Cheers,

Andy
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http://wingolog.org/



  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-26 21:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-20 23:07 GIT version: autocompiling startup file Mark Harig
2011-01-21  8:09 ` Hans Aberg
2011-01-21  8:32   ` Hans Aberg
2011-01-21 10:04 ` Hans Aberg
2011-01-26 21:10   ` Andy Wingo [this message]
2011-01-26 23:54     ` Hans Aberg
2011-01-27  9:03       ` Andy Wingo
2011-01-27 13:33         ` Hans Aberg
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-01-18 10:08 Hans Aberg

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