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From: Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 41037@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#41037: documentation for application developers?
Date: Sun, 03 May 2020 23:13:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <10121112.yT0VcRYgiK@omega> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87pnbkvio0.fsf@gnu.org>

Hi Ludo,

> > I would expect to find these issues discussed, at least:
> >   - hard-coded program names like /bin/pwd
> 
> These should be avoided; it’s not Guix-specific, but the problem is
> obviously more acute here.

/bin/pwd exists on all other Unix systems; so de facto it _is_ Guix
specific.

> >   - where is /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 ?
> 
> It’s in the glibc package:
> 
>   ls $(guix build glibc | grep '[0-9]$')/lib
> 
> What’s your use case?

So, the consequence is that a Guix user cannot send an executable
to another Guix user and expect it to be runnable on the other machine.
This too is Guix specific; maybe it is already documented?

> >   - libtool, ldconfig issues
> 
> ‘ldconfig’ is not used.  Nothing special for Libtool.
> Do you have something in mind?

I wanted to have background information regarding ldconfig and shared
library caches, in order to investigate bug#41038
<https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2020-05/msg00036.html>.

Bruno





  reply	other threads:[~2020-05-03 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-02 23:36 bug#41037: documentation for application developers? Bruno Haible
2020-05-03 20:59 ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-05-03 21:13   ` Bruno Haible [this message]
2020-05-03 21:48     ` Danny Milosavljevic
2020-05-03 22:57       ` Bruno Haible
2020-05-03 22:18     ` Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix
2020-05-04  8:18     ` Ludovic Courtès

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