Re: Need guidance on how to proceed

[Jay Sulzberger]

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.