From: Jay Sulzberger <jays@panix.com>
To: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Need guidance on how to proceed
Date: Sun, 31 Jan 2021 23:00:00 +0000 () [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.4.64.2101312256560.15461@panix3.panix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <YBchJ73X2rFQGUTV@jasmine.lan>
On Sun, 31 Jan 2021, Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 01:21:54PM -0700, K I wrote:
>> Greetings!
>>
>> I am attempting to unpack and use a program in .tar.gz format for programming lisp.
>> When I unpack and try to use .tar.gz, it says the file doesn't exist.
>>
>> What should be my path forward to try and get this to run on Guix?
>
> The first step would be to figure out which file doesn't exist. If your
> program was compiled for a different operating system than Guix, it's
> probably missing the linker / loader.
>
> I recommend installing strace and then doing:
>
> `strace -f $your_program 2>&1 | tee ~/tmp/strace.log`
>
> The strace.log should help you learn what is missing.
Ah, thanks, Leo! In my hasty response I missed that the unpacking of
the .tar.gz file had succeeded.
oo--JS.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-01-31 20:21 Need guidance on how to proceed K I
2021-01-31 21:28 ` Jay Sulzberger
2021-01-31 21:29 ` Leo Famulari
2021-01-31 23:00 ` Jay Sulzberger [this message]
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