From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?utf-8?Q?Court=C3=A8s?=) Subject: Re: Why does glibc provide bash? Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 18:44:46 +0200 Message-ID: <87egj0k0ld.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87vbcnb2vp.fsf@igalia.com> <871tfapi6h.fsf@netris.org> <877fp25j6g.fsf@igalia.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38984) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRk0K-0006Qa-Uw for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 12:44:54 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZRk0H-0001Ua-Q4 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 18 Aug 2015 12:44:52 -0400 In-Reply-To: <877fp25j6g.fsf@igalia.com> (Andy Wingo's message of "Tue, 11 Aug 2015 10:21:59 +0200") List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Andy Wingo Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org Andy Wingo skribis: > I see that glibc depends on static-bash as an input, but why would > installing glibc cause me to have a static bash in my profile? That=E2=80=99s because the static bash ends up being copied in glibc=E2=80= =99s BINDIR. > The circular dep issue sounds pretty exciting but it seems like there > might be another bug here. Dunno. I wonder how Nix deals with this. Nix has /bin/sh in its default build environment, so it doesn=E2=80=99t have this problem but has a bunch of other issues. ;-) https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-01/msg00041.html (Now, I need to think more about the options Mark suggests.) Ludo=E2=80=99.