Re: GIT version: autocompiling startup file

[Hans Aberg]

On 26 Jan 2011, at 22:10, Andy Wingo 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.

On Mac OS X, there are two locations for cached objects; when put  
there, the system will assume they can be regenerated and not be  
backed up. These would be
  ~/Library/Caches/Guile/
  /Library/Caches/Guile/
if keeping to Mac tradition using uppercase names. One can also mark  
~/.cache/ to be the same kind of area.