Error: ("primitive-load-path" "Unable to find file ~S in load path" ("ice-9/boot-9") #f)Abort

Error: ("primitive-load-path" "Unable to find file ~S in load path" ("ice-9/boot-9") #f)Abort

[Nicholas Papadonis]

I recently compiled guile from GitHub.  This error is encountered.  Does
anyone know how to resolve this and invoke Guile?

Thanks

$ /usr/local/bin/guile
Pre-boot error; key: misc-error, args: ("primitive-load-path" "Unable to
find file ~S in load path" ("ice-9/boot-9") #f)Abort

Re: Error: ("primitive-load-path" "Unable to find file ~S in load path" ("ice-9/boot-9") #f)Abort

[Massimiliano Gubinelli]

Dear Nicholas, 
 you would have to give me more context: which system, which version of Guile, which github repository (there are many), which branch. 

You could also try to pull again my repository (mgubi/texmacs) and use the branch guile2, I've done some adjustements yesterday. On my Mac it works fine with these versions of Guile: 1.6.8, 1.8.8, 2.0.14, 2.2.7 and 3.0.1. I'm not able to test with previous Guile since they do not compile on my machine.

Max



> sOn 20. Mar 2020, at 04:43, Nicholas Papadonis <nick.papadonis.ml@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I recently compiled guile from GitHub.  This error is encountered.  Does
> anyone know how to resolve this and invoke Guile?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> $ /usr/local/bin/guile
> Pre-boot error; key: misc-error, args: ("primitive-load-path" "Unable to
> find file ~S in load path" ("ice-9/boot-9") #f)Abort

Re: Error: ("primitive-load-path" "Unable to find file ~S in load path" ("ice-9/boot-9") #f)Abort

[Massimiliano Gubinelli]

Oops, 
 I'm sorry. I just realise your message was sent to guile-user and not to texmacs-user. My answer is not appropriate. Please disregard it and sorry for the noise.

Max


> On 20. Mar 2020, at 09:50, Massimiliano Gubinelli <m.gubinelli@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Dear Nicholas, 
>  you would have to give me more context: which system, which version of Guile, which github repository (there are many), which branch. 
> 
> You could also try to pull again my repository (mgubi/texmacs) and use the branch guile2, I've done some adjustements yesterday. On my Mac it works fine with these versions of Guile: 1.6.8, 1.8.8, 2.0.14, 2.2.7 and 3.0.1. I'm not able to test with previous Guile since they do not compile on my machine.
> 
> Max
> 
> 
> 
>> sOn 20. Mar 2020, at 04:43, Nicholas Papadonis <nick.papadonis.ml@gmail.com <mailto:nick.papadonis.ml@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> I recently compiled guile from GitHub.  This error is encountered.  Does
>> anyone know how to resolve this and invoke Guile?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> $ /usr/local/bin/guile
>> Pre-boot error; key: misc-error, args: ("primitive-load-path" "Unable to
>> find file ~S in load path" ("ice-9/boot-9") #f)Abort
> 

Re: Error: ("primitive-load-path" "Unable to find file ~S in load path" ("ice-9/boot-9") #f)Abort

[Matt Wette]

On 3/19/20 8:43 PM, Nicholas Papadonis wrote:
> I recently compiled guile from GitHub.  This error is encountered.  Does
> anyone know how to resolve this and invoke Guile?
>
> Thanks
>
> $ /usr/local/bin/guile
> Pre-boot error; key: misc-error, args: ("primitive-load-path" "Unable to
> find file ~S in load path" ("ice-9/boot-9") #f)Abor

The message is saying that Guile can't load the module ice-9/boot.
That is bad news, saying that Guile does not have the correct load-path.
First, this could happen if you did not configure with --prefix=/usr/local?

I have also run into this often when I have multiple versions of Guile
installed on the same system.  I don't know why this happens.  My
GUILE_LOAD_PATH does not reflect anything outside home directory.
LD_LIBRARY_PATH is blank.  For example, I have guile-3 installed in
/opt/local/bin.   This is Ubuntu 18.04, with guile-2 installed in /usr/bin.
"which guile" returns /opt/local/bin/guile.   Look at this:

mwette$ /usr/bin/guile
Uncaught exception:
Throw to key misc-error with args ("primitive-load-path" "Unable to find 
file ~S in load path" ("ice-9/boot-9") #f)

Matt