Good news: this seems fixed with this patch. Some more comments inline. Timothy Sample writes: >>> Also, I checked all of this from Racket without grafts, and it never >>> complained about compiling OpenSSL stuff. Running “raco setup” gives >>> some other errors, though. >> >> You're right... without grafts it doesn't have the openssl error. The >> other writing to the store issues still seem to persist, but it doesn't >> block running "raco setup" (after a "raco pkg install", a step I had >> omitted earlier). > > Okay. I was confused about the “raco setup” example, but the other step > makes more sense now. > > I will say that even on Debian, with an regular user, I have seen > “permission denied” errors because Racket tries to update files in > “/usr/share”. Okay... on that note, "raco pkg install" now completely works IME without permission errors, I should mention. I'm still seeing a couple of permission errors on "raco setup", but they don't look like they matter unlike the ones that were appearing earlier. And you're right, I tried on Debian and got some errors too. For the record, the ones I saw looked like this: delete-file: cannot delete file path: /gnu/store/33rx7rh6q22h3r11x8prz37nl7ygfl22-racket-6.12/bin/raco system error: Read-only file system; errno=30 context...: /gnu/store/33rx7rh6q22h3r11x8prz37nl7ygfl22-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/launcher/launcher.rkt:358:0: make-unix-launcher /gnu/store/33rx7rh6q22h3r11x8prz37nl7ygfl22-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/setup/setup-core.rkt:1451:13: for-loop /gnu/store/33rx7rh6q22h3r11x8prz37nl7ygfl22-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/setup/setup-core.rkt:1428:8: make-launcher /gnu/store/33rx7rh6q22h3r11x8prz37nl7ygfl22-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/setup/setup-core.rkt:1556:8: for-loop /gnu/store/33rx7rh6q22h3r11x8prz37nl7ygfl22-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/setup/setup-core.rkt:178:50 /gnu/store/33rx7rh6q22h3r11x8prz37nl7ygfl22-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/setup/setup-core.rkt:1425:4: for-loop /gnu/store/33rx7rh6q22h3r11x8prz37nl7ygfl22-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/setup/setup-core.rkt:71:0: setup-core /gnu/store/33rx7rh6q22h3r11x8prz37nl7ygfl22-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/setup/main.rkt: [running body] /gnu/store/33rx7rh6q22h3r11x8prz37nl7ygfl22-racket-6.12/share/racket/collects/raco/main.rkt: [running body] But again, I don't think they matter. >> ISTM that this is a separate bug. In fact I'm afraid I've polluted this >> bug with what I thought were all the same bug but turned out to be >> several different bugs, of which a couple are fixed now thanks to your >> help. >> >> PS: About the bounty, my thoughts are that some of these smaller issues >> being resolved are already worth a smaller amount of compensation (and >> thanks!), but there are *two different* larger issues of which probably >> either is worth the full amount (though I can only afford to pay for >> one)... one of them is the issue of the grafts breaking eg openssl >> (which maybe we should file as a separate bug?), and the other is this >> original bug (30680) about the attempts to compile to the store (which >> does not seem as big of a blocker as it did previously, but is still >> very annoying). Does that seem fair? (Feel free to contact me >> off-list.) > > Actually I think there is only one bug, which is the grafts thing. This > bug was originally about compiling OpenSSL files to the store. Grafting > doesn’t break OpenSSL it just makes Racket try to recompile its OpenSSL > FFI wrappers. > > I have a patch, too. I sent it to guix-patches, but I must have made a > mistake because it ended up in bug-guix attached to this bug report. > The patch can be found at . Also, the > attachment didn’t get sent to the list, but did make it to the bug page. > Hm.... Sorry for the goof! It seems good to me. I'm going to push it. Thanks for your work on this! I'll email you off-list about paying the bounty :)