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From: Adam Kandur via <help-guix@gnu.org>
To: Arun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>
Cc: Help Guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: help with emacs package
Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2020 11:50:11 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <MOBGRMX--3-2@tuta.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pn3iklja.fsf@systemreboot.net>

thank you!
adding
---
    (arguments
     `(#:phases
       (modify-phases %standard-phases
         (add-before 'check 'set-test-environment
           (lambda _
             (setenv "HOME" "/tmp")
             #t)))))---
solved this problem ^_^

could anybody describe in details what went wrong? 





Dec 10, 2020, 10:22 by arunisaac@systemreboot.net:

>
> Hi Adam,
>
>> Creating directory: Permission denied, /homeless-shelter
>>
>
> Try setting the HOME environment variable to /tmp. Many package
> definitions do this. See, for example, the codec2 package in
> gnu/packages/audio.scm.
>
> Cheers!
>



  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-10 10:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-10  7:45 help with emacs package Adam Kandur via
     [not found] ` <87pn3iklja.fsf@systemreboot.net>
2020-12-10 10:50   ` Adam Kandur via [this message]
2020-12-10 11:24     ` Arun Isaac
2020-12-10 12:15       ` Adam Kandur via

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