Re: failed to create path for auto-compiled file

[Matt Wette <matt.wette@gmail.com>]

On 1/15/19 5:59 PM, Matt Wette wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I maintain an add-on package to Guile.  I have a user reporting the 
> following
> WARNING:
>
> ;;; compiling /usr/share/guile/site/2.2/nyacc/lang/c99/ffi-help.scm
> ;;; WARNING: compilation of 
> /usr/share/guile/site/2.2/nyacc/lang/c99/ffi-help.scm failed:
> ;;; failed to create path for auto-compiled file 
> "/usr/share/guile/site/2.2/nyacc/lang/c99/ffi-help.scm"
>
> So my part of my package, including the file above, depends on 
> scheme-bytestructures.
> If, on installation (presumably as root), bytestructures is not found, 
> then only the
> sources are installed.  Now it seems a user has bytestructures in his 
> own path and
> now he wants to use ffi-help, but it's not getting compiled.  I would 
> expect
> Guile to compile and install in the user's .cache directory if write 
> to a root-owned
> directory (e.g., /usr/lib/guile/2.2/site-ccache) fails.
>
> Am I missing something?  Should this be reported as a bug?
>
I could not reproduce this warning, so I'm thinking it may be unique to this user.