From: Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name>
To: Phil Beadling <phil@beadling.co.uk>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: guix build gives `/homeless-shelter' exists; please remove it
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2022 15:43:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Yesa1QrXQCXlADnE@jasmine.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOvsyQt8Yx88ZY+VUqs8V2f5gLvG74O47Jqb0WactoEcZ8LLdQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, Jan 21, 2022 at 06:50:42PM +0000, Phil Beadling wrote:
> As of last night my Guix installation (on Ubuntu) is giving the following
> error when trying to fetch a URL as part of the 'guix build'. The error
> does not happen when downloading the same package using 'guix download':
>
> *guix build: error: directory `/homeless-shelter' exists; please remove it *
>
> It seems to make no difference what the package or or where the URL is
> fetched from, I can demonstrate it with any arbitrary file on any website
> I've tried so far.
>
> However, if I use 'guix download' I am able to download the package, and
> then 'guix build' works as planned, using the copy stored by 'guix
> download'.
>
> Can anyone point to where I might look to delete the homeless-shelter - or
> if this is perhaps a misleading error message?
So, does /homeless-shelter exist on your filesystem?
For example:
$ ls -l /homeless-shelter
ls: cannot access '/homeless-shelter': No such file or directory
If it does, that's surprising.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-01-21 21:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-01-21 18:50 guix build gives `/homeless-shelter' exists; please remove it Phil Beadling
2022-01-21 20:43 ` Leo Famulari [this message]
2022-01-21 21:31 ` Phil
2022-01-21 21:36 ` Leo Famulari
2022-01-21 21:56 ` Phil
2022-01-21 22:14 ` Leo Famulari
2022-01-22 4:50 ` raingloom
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