I've built Guile 2.0.11 on another system, and found a problem in
coding.test: it assumes that /tmp exists, and creates the temporary
files there. Here's the patch to make that more portable:
--- test-suite/tests/coding.test~0 2014-01-21 23:45:02.000000000 +0200
+++ test-suite/tests/coding.test 2014-08-09 13:16:46.416750000 +0300
@@ -20,7 +20,10 @@
#:use-module (test-suite lib))
(define (with-temp-file proc)
- (let* ((name (string-copy "/tmp/coding-test.XXXXXX"))
+ (let* ((tmpdir (or (getenv "TMPDIR")
+ (getenv "TEMP")
+ "/tmp"))
+ (name (string-concatenate (list tmpdir "/coding-test.XXXXXX")))
(port (mkstemp! name)))
(let ((res (with-throw-handler
#t
