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.

The problem is due to scm_from_latin1_symbol() in file load.c together  
with that I set the locale to LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8. It works with  
either the default locale on Mac OS X 10.5.8, which is LC_CTYPE=UTF-8,  
or LC_CTYPE=en_US.ISO8859-1. However, some software does not work  
unless the locale is changed to what I set it to (the default locale  
causes problems).