Re: GIT version: autocompiling startup file

[Hans Aberg]

On 21 Jan 2011, at 00:07, Mark Harig wrote:

> > When starting with 'guile -l', autocompiling fails, even with an  
> > empty file.
> >
> > $ guile -l empty.scm
> > ;;; note: autocompilation is enabled, set GUILE_AUTO_COMPILE=0
> > ;;; or pass the --no-autocompile argument to disable.
> > ;;; compiling empty.scm
> > ;;; WARNING: compilation of empty.scm failed:
> > ;;; key wrong-type-arg, throw_args ("dirname" "Wrong type argument  
> > in position ~A (expecting ~A): ~S" (1 "string" #f) (#f))
> > GNU Guile 1.9.14.68-a7d8a
>
> This is not happening on my build of guile 1.9.14.

I found the error:

On my computer, the directory ~/.cache/ had already been created by  
another program, setting another owner so that guile could not create  
its directories in it. Then, in the function compiled-file-name in  
file system/base/compile.scm, the exception from ensure-writable-dir  
is converted to #f, which is the argument after "string" in the error  
message above.

By contrast, if it compiles, the location of the .go file is written  
out.