GDB built with Guile won't start when boot-9 is unavailable.

Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
Sun Aug 10 17:56:00 GMT 2014


> 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.



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