From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Thompson, David" Subject: bug#24433: fish needs to have bc in propagated-inputs Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:57:42 -0400 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:54977) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkAhT-0006yi-Tz for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:58:12 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkAhO-0002d2-PR for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:58:06 -0400 Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:33670) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bkAhO-0002cy-Jp for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:58:02 -0400 Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bkAhO-00040v-Dx for bug-guix@gnu.org; Wed, 14 Sep 2016 09:58:02 -0400 Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-Message-ID: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+gcggb-bug-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" To: Arun Isaac Cc: 24433@debbugs.gnu.org On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 4:48 AM, Arun Isaac wrote: > > 'fish' needs 'bc' as a propagated input. I have noticed runtime errors > due to absence of bc. It's also mentioned here: > > https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell#runtime-dependencies > > Quoting the relevant paragraph: > > "fish requires a number of utilities to operate, which should be present > on any Unix, GNU/Linux or OS X system. These include (but are not > limited to) hostname, grep, awk, sed, which, and getopt. fish also > requires the bc program." A runtime dependency does *not* mean that an input should be propagated. Propagation is a solution of last resort. Instead, try finding the places where 'bc' is referenced in the fish source and replace it with the absolute path to the binary. Thanks, - Dave