bug#47189: octave needs to be wrapped with coreutils

bug#47189: octave needs to be wrapped with coreutils

[Efraim Flashner]

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I tracked down a bug where octave has a function called 'copyfile' which
shells out to call 'cp -r' but in an environment without coreutils, or
when in a script with PATH unset, it fails.

try it out with the following:
touch foo
guix environment --pure --ad-hoc octave-cli -- \
    octave --eval 'copyfile("foo","bar");'

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bug#47189: octave needs to be wrapped with coreutils

[Arseniy Zaostrovnykh]

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Hello!
I am about to send my first ever patch that fixes this easy issue. Please
let me know if it is the wrong channel, or I messed up the patch through my
gmail client.

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bug#47189: [PATCH] gnu: octave-cli: Make coreutils an explicit input

[Arseniy Zaostrovnykh]

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This ensures coreutils like `cp` are available when running octave,
which is assumed by some of its builtin functions.
Resolves 47189

* gnu/packages/maths.scm(octave-cli): make coreutils input explicit
---
 gnu/packages/maths.scm | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/maths.scm b/gnu/packages/maths.scm
index 5f47d5e390..8821a42712 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/maths.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/maths.scm
@@ -3055,6 +3055,7 @@ (define-public octave-cli
      (list alsa-lib
            arpack-ng
            bdb
+           coreutils ;; mention explicitly to make available for the built
octave
            curl
            fftw
            fftwf
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2.46.0

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