but I get errors of the form
```
error in process sentinel: Native elisp load failed: "/home/michael/.emacs.d/.local/straight/build/general/eln-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-63761565f6c9e3bd/.dirs-local.eln", "/home/michael/.emacs.d/.local/straight/build/general/eln-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-63761565f6c9e3bd/.dirs-local.eln: file
 too short"
```