From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
To: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gnu: bootstrap: Create a wrapper for guile to set the system load path
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 16:39:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d202z8mm.fsf@netris.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87h9pezae5.fsf@netris.org> (Mark H. Weaver's message of "Wed, 08 Jul 2015 16:01:38 -0400")
Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:
> Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org> writes:
>
>> We currently use gnu/packages/patches/guile-relocatable.patch to set the
>> system load path in the bootstrap guile. However, that patch depends on
>> /proc/self/exe which is not present on the Hurd. Therefore, I came up
>> with another approach in the attached patch. After unpacking the
>> bootstrap guile, we use it to create its own wrapper that sets the
>> GUILE_SYSTEM_PATH and GUILE_SYSTEM_COMPILED_PATH environment variables.
>>
>> My only concern is that these variables will be present in the
>> environment in any subprograms launched by the bootstrap guile, and so
>> if the bootstrap guile ever tries to run a different version of guile,
>> those variable settings may cause trouble.
>
> 'guile-final' built successfully on x86_64 with this patch, and that was
> the package that I was most worried about, so maybe everything will work
> out in practice.
FYI, I successfully built GNU Hello with that patch applied.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-07-08 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-07-08 16:45 [PATCH] gnu: bootstrap: Create a wrapper for guile to set the system load path Mark H Weaver
2015-07-08 20:01 ` Mark H Weaver
2015-07-08 20:39 ` Mark H Weaver [this message]
2015-07-09 10:14 ` Manolis Ragkousis
2015-07-09 18:24 ` Manolis Ragkousis
2015-07-10 20:42 ` Ludovic Courtès
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