On Saturday, September 24th, 2022 at 19:25, ( <paren@disroot.org> wrote:

> 

> What might be referred to as a "run-time dependency" is called a
> "propagated input" in Guix, where a dependency of X is installed
> whenever X itself is installed. They are generally considered
> undesirable and should be avoided, so when we're faced with this
> sort of problem we usually do:
> 

> (inputs (list gettext))
> 

> and add a phase:
> 

> (add-after 'unpack 'patch-invocations
> (lambda* (#:key inputs #:allow-other-keys)
> (substitute* "src/foo/bar.c"
> (("\"msgfmt\"")
> (string-append
> "\""
> (search-input-file inputs "bin/msgfmt")
> "\"")))))

Thanks, (, I'll try to patch it.