Opened 8 years ago
Closed 8 years ago
#1319 closed defect (invalid)
check-errors egg installation in GuixSD
| Reported by: | John Foerch | Owned by: | |
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| Priority: | major | Milestone: | someday |
| Component: | extensions | Version: | 4.11.0 |
| Keywords: | check-errors | Cc: | |
| Estimated difficulty: |
Description
On the operating system GuixSD, packages are installed each to their own isolated directory in a store rather than to global system directories like in most GNU/Linux distros. The store directories are read-only, so occasionally present unique challenges for packaging software.
On a GuixSD system, when I install the check-errors egg, the following error and warning is produced:
cp: cannot create regular file '/gnu/store/<HASH>-chicken-4.11.0/share/chicken/inline-type-checks.scm': Read-only file system Warning: cannot copy to Chicken Home: must use CHICKEN_INCLUDE_PATH when using "inline-type-checks"
The check-errors egg uses setup-helper, and a call to install-in-home is the source of this warning.
I really don't know the reason for this file needing to be in the chicken installation directory (check-errors is just a dependency of a dependency of a program I'm interested in) but it is a bit surprising to me that an egg needs to write to the chicken installation directory, so I wanted to note this use case here, and suggest that maybe other designs be considered to make check-errors more portable.
Nevermind, I misunderstood what was happening here.