Re: gEDA-user: gnetlist: ERROR: Unbound variable: primitive-fork

[Dan McMahill <dan@mcmahill.net>]

On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 11:02:03PM +0200, Berni Joss wrote:
> Thank your for your support in helping on this issue.
> 
> On Mon, Apr 12, 2004 at 07:14:04AM -0400, Ales Hvezda wrote:
> > 	Here's something to try.  Run guile and type:
> > 
> > primitive-fork 
> > 
> > 	at the guile> prompt.  On my machine it outputs:
> > 
> > #<primitive-procedure primitive-fork>
> > 
> > 	which is what I expect.  On your machine this should fail with
> > an unbound variable error message. 
> 
> You guessed correctly :-)


Ales beat me to this one.


> > 
> > 	If it does fail, that means that just your guile install is somehow
> > fubar.  It would be interesting to _just_ rebuild guile (but don't install it),
> > point gschem and friends at the build directories (at runtime, without
> > a gEDA rebuild) and see if that fixes the problem.  Doing this is
> > fairly easy.
> > 
> > 	Rebuilding guile is as simple as (should be):
> > 
> > 	tar xvfz guile-1.6.4.tar.gz
> > 	cd guile-1.6.4
> > 	./configure 
> > 	make
> 
> I did as you suggested ... but it is not yet working, I mean that I still get the same error message. What exactly did you mean with "point gschem and friends at the build .."? I understood that I should set:
> $ export GUILE_LOAD_PATH=/home/berni/guile-1.6.4
> 
> After doing this, I still get:
> : guile> primitive-fork
> : <unnamed port>: In expression primitive-fork:
> : <unnamed port>: Unbound variable: primitive-fork
> : ABORT: (unbound-variable)
> : 
> : Type "(backtrace)" to get more information or "(debug)" to enter the debugger.
> : guile> 
> 
> and, possibly more surprising, I get an error message when querying the load
> path:
> : guile> (%load-path)
> : standard input:1:1: In expression (%load-path):
> : standard input:1:1: Wrong type to apply: ("/home/berni/guile-1.6.4/" "/usr/share/guile/site" "/usr/share/guile/1.6" "/usr/share/guile" ".")
> : ABORT: (misc-error)
> : 
> : Type "(backtrace)" to get more information or "(debug)" to enter the debugger.
> 
> Could this "wrong type to apply" be related to the "primitive-fork" error??
> 

nope.  Its because you tried to use %load-path as an operator or function.
(+ 3 2) means "apply + to the arguments 3 and 2".  (%load-path) means "apply
%load-path with no arguments" but %load-path is simply a list, not a function
or operator.

I think
  
  (display %load-path)

is closer to what you wanted.

Just for kicks, if you do 'make check' in your guile-1.6.4, does it fail
any self tests?  

-Dan

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