Re: help with emacs package

[Adam Kandur]

ohhhhh,
thank you again for this information





Dec 10, 2020, 11:24 by arunisaac@systemreboot.net:

>> could anybody describe in details what went wrong?
>>
>
> By default, the HOME environment variable in the build environment is
> set to /homeless-shelter, a non-existent directory. Some packages try to
> access HOME to put temporary files or for some other reason. When they
> find the HOME directory does not exist, they error out. Note the
> following error message in your build log.
>
>>>> Creating directory: Permission denied, /homeless-shelter
>>>>
>
> So, for such packages, we set HOME to /tmp, a directory that actually
> exists in the build environment.
>