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Guix on Debian Testing sbcl package needs warning to set SBCL_HOME

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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Christopher W Carpenter <mordocai <at> mordocai.net>
Cc: 22571-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#22571: Acknowledgement (Guix on Debian Testing sbcl package needs warning to set SBCL_HOME)
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 22:32:07 +0100

Christopher W Carpenter <mordocai <at> mordocai.net> skribis:

> I found the problem, and this can be closed IMHO.
>
> I use StumpWM, which is written in common lisp and I use sbcl to run it.
> It appears that when the stumpwm image is created the SBCL_HOME
> environment variable's state at that time is stored. In addition, for
> whatever reason, any processes started from stumpwm will have a
> SBCL_HOME environment variable with that same value.
>
> Therefore, my issue was that my stumpwm that was starting my
> processes(and the processess themselves)
> had an old, incorrect value for SBCL_HOME which would then cause this
> error.
>
> Interesting "bug" to find! Thanks for the help!

Indeed, thanks for letting us know!

Ludo’.

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