Manolis Ragkousis <manolis837@gmail.com> skribis:

> When I try to patch tar I get "(vm-run "VM: Stack overflow" ())",
> probably, because it tries to use patch but it does not yet exist and
> I get the chicken-egg problem.

Indeed.  The problem was that, by default, source patching in
‘patch-and-repack’ would use not the tar from ‘%final-inputs’, but the
tar built with ‘%final-inputs’.  Hence the circular dependency: to apply
the patch of this tar, we would first need to built it.

So you first need this patch: