Duh, got it: if next-1.3.1-lib is grafted, then the path to SQLite, libfixposix, etc. _inside the compress binary_ will not be updated. So if we garbage-collect after that, the binary will try to FFI-load non-existing libraries. Note that this is only a problem because Next depends on FFI libraries. Compressing pure-SBCL binaries should not be a problem. Thanks for your help! -- Pierre Neidhardt https://ambrevar.xyz/