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 13:15:59 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <MOB_4G---3-2@tuta.io> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h7otlx8y.fsf@systemreboot.net>
ohhhhh,
thank you again for this information
Dec 10, 2020, 11:24 by arunisaac@systemreboot.net:
>> could anybody describe in details what went wrong?
>>
>
> By default, the HOME environment variable in the build environment is
> set to /homeless-shelter, a non-existent directory. Some packages try to
> access HOME to put temporary files or for some other reason. When they
> find the HOME directory does not exist, they error out. Note the
> following error message in your build log.
>
>>>> Creating directory: Permission denied, /homeless-shelter
>>>>
>
> So, for such packages, we set HOME to /tmp, a directory that actually
> exists in the build environment.
>
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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
2020-12-10 11:24 ` Arun Isaac
2020-12-10 12:15 ` Adam Kandur via [this message]
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