Maxima fails to start as regular user (on Fedora 17)

Hi all, 

I am trying to set up maxima on a fedora 17 base to eventually use emacs
+ imaxima (I hope).

I have grabbed maxima through yum, but trying to run it as a regular
user from CLI I get the lisp error message (see the full error message
below if that helps)[1].

,----
|  Can't create directory /builddir/
`----

If I change to superuser, I can run maxima from CLI successfully, so I
guess there's some permissioning somewhere? 

Checking the file permissions in
~/.cache/common-lisp/sbcl-1.0.57-1.fc17-linux-x86/home/johnny/quicklisp/quicklisp/
they are all 775 with the sticky bit set ("d"). Setting this to 777
doesn't help.

Any help appreciated! 

Thanks,

Johnny


Footnotes: 
[1]  Full error message:
     ,----
     | debugger invoked on a SB-INT:SIMPLE-FILE-ERROR in thread
     | #<THREAD "main thread" RUNNING {C555E19}>:
     |   Can't create directory /builddir/
     | 
     | Type HELP for debugger help, or (SB-EXT:QUIT) to exit from SBCL.
     | 
     | restarts (invokable by number or by possibly-abbreviated name):
     |   0: [RETRY   ] Retry directory creation.
     |   1: [CONTINUE] Continue as if directory creation was successful.
     |   2: [RETRY   ] Retry compiling #<CL-SOURCE-FILE "quicklisp" "package">.
     |   3: [ACCEPT  ] Continue, treating
     |                 compiling #<CL-SOURCE-FILE "quicklisp" "package"> as having
     |                 been successful.
     |   4: [RETRY   ] Retry EVAL of current toplevel form.
     |   5:            Ignore error and continue loading file "/home/johnny/quicklisp/setup.lisp".
     |   6: [ABORT   ] Abort loading file "/home/johnny/quicklisp/setup.lisp".
     |   7:            Retry EVAL of current toplevel form.
     |   8:            Ignore error and continue userinit file "/home/johnny/.sbclrc".
     |   9:            Abort userinit file "/home/johnny/.sbclrc".
     |  10:            Skip to toplevel READ/EVAL/PRINT loop.
     |  11: [EXIT    ] Exit SBCL (calling #'EXIT, killing the process).
     | 
     | (ENSURE-DIRECTORIES-EXIST
     |  #P"/builddir/.cache/common-lisp/sbcl-1.0.57-1.fc17-linux-x86/home/johnny/quicklisp/quicklisp/package.fasl"
     |  :VERBOSE
     |  NIL
     |  :MODE
     |  511)
     `----


-- 
Johnny