Re: emacs-guix throwing errors

[Alex Kost]

address@hidden (2019-04-06 02:59 +0200) wrote:

> On 04.04.2019 21:38, Alex Kost wrote:
>> Brett Gilio (2019-04-01 16:13 -0500) wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all. I am hoping the maintainer of emacs-guix will see this:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>> Whenever I try to search for a package, or perform any of the routine
>>> guix commands using the emacs-guix interface, I am getting this error.
>>>
>>> guix-geiser-eval: Error in evaluating guile expression: ERROR: In
>>> procedure string-append:
>>> In procedure string-append: Wrong type (expecting string):
>>> #<<search-path-specification> variable: "GHC_PACKAGE_PATH" files:
>>> ("lib/ghc-8.0.2") separator: ":" file-type: directory file-pattern:
>>> ".*\\.conf\\.d$">
>>>
>>> The specifics of the string seem to change based on what I am trying
>>> to
>>> do, but regardless it does not work and I have to perform those
>>> commands
>>> using the command line.
>>>
>>> Any ideas?
>>
>> No ideas currently, but could you please switch to *Guix Internal REPL*
>> buffer, run ",bt" command there and show its output.  Thanks.
>
> Hi Alex,
>
> Here is the backtrace for doing a regexp search for 'emacs'
[...]

Sorry, I'm afraid I don't know what causes this error.  I hope I will
face this bug soon, so that I could figure it out.  Maybe it happens
only to people who installed "ghc" package (as the error says about
GHC_PACKAGE_PATH variable), I don't know :-(

-- 
Alex