On Fri 21 Jan 2011 11:04, Hans Aberg <haber...@telia.com> writes: > On 21 Jan 2011, at 00:07, Mark Harig wrote: > >>> When starting with 'guile -l', autocompiling fails, even with an >>> empty file. >>> > 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.
Thanks for the detailed report. I believe I've fixed this in git to give a more sensible error. Cheers, Andy -- http://wingolog.org/