Re: bug#22571: Guix on Debian Testing sbcl package needs warning to set SBCL_HOME

[Christopher W Carpenter]

address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Christopher W Carpenter <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> When doing guix package -i sbcl on my newly setup debian testing + guix
>> machine and then attempting to run sbcl I got the error:
>>
>> fatal error encountered in SBCL pid 7492(tid 140737354086144):
>> can't find core file at /usr/lib64/sbcl/sbcl.core
>
> Are you sure you were running ~/.guix-profile/bin/sbcl?
>
> I’ve just tried this on GuixSD, to check whether sbcl systematically
> looks for things in /usr:
>
> $ strace -f -o ,,s $(guix build sbcl | head -1)/bin/sbcl 
> This is SBCL 1.2.8, an implementation of ANSI Common Lisp.
> More information about SBCL is available at <http://www.sbcl.org/>.
>
> SBCL is free software, provided as is, with absolutely no warranty.
> It is mostly in the public domain; some portions are provided under
> BSD-style licenses.  See the CREDITS and COPYING files in the
> distribution for more information.
> * (+ 2 3)
>
> 5
> *
> $ grep /usr ,,s
> [ nothing ]
>
> However, it loads /etc/sbclrc.  Could it be that your host distro
> provides such a file, which tweaks sbcl into reading from /usr/lib64?
>
> Thanks for the report,
> Ludo’.

Hey Ludo,

Yes, i was definitely running ~/.guix-profile/bin/sbcl. Not only did I
not have any other sbcl installed, but the guix version (1.2.8) differs
From the debian testing version (1.3.1) and I verified that the correct
version was running.

I also have no /etc/sbclrc for the same reason.

I haven't used guix long but from what I can tell there are a lot of
issues similar to this that only seem to affect non-GuixSD systems.

It appears this problem does not occur if I build sbcl myself rather than using 
the substitute from
hydra. I am attempting to verify this, as that seems very weird/impossible.

Thanks,
Christopher Carpenter

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