From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: GDB built with Guile won't start when boot-9 is unavailable.
Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 17:56:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83oavsjkjc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83vbq0ju7k.fsf@gnu.org>
> Date: Sun, 10 Aug 2014 17:27:27 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>
> Someone tried to run GDB 7.8 that I built with Guile support without
> installing Guile first. (libguile was statically linked into GDB, so
> no shared library was needed.) They reported that GDB bailed out with
> the following error message:
>
> Throw without catch before boot:
> Throw to key misc-error with args ("primitive-load-path" "Unable to find
> file ~S in load path" ("ice-9/boot-9") #f)Aborting.
>
> AFAIR, a snapshot I built about 2 months ago didn't bail out, it just
> printed a warning that Guile support will be partial.
>
> Is it possible to avoid the fatal error in this case?
Sorry, ignore this: it's because Guile was installed in a directory
other than the one it was configured for, and GUILE_LOAD_PATH was not
set.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-08-10 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-08-10 14:27 Eli Zaretskii
2014-08-10 17:56 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2014-08-10 19:12 ` Doug Evans
2014-08-10 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
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