From: raingloom <raingloom@riseup.net>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org, Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: The case for moving raw binaries
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2022 00:52:49 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220429005247.4af8b0a4@riseup.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b6125207848d0fdc3df1c09b76f299a53600db90.camel@telenet.be>
On Thu, 28 Apr 2022 21:57:04 +0200
Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> wrote:
> Liliana Marie Prikler schreef op do 28-04-2022 om 19:27 [+0200]:
> > > How does this help with double wrapping? Whether the wrappers /
> > > originals are put in /bin or $RAWBIN_DIR, it's still wrapped
> > > twice.
> > Because $RAWBIN_DIR can be ignored when wrapping. This means that
> > stuff that's already in it won't be added again.
> > [...]
> > Constructing the wrapper is not so much the problem, it's not
> > wrapping the already wrapped binaries.
>
> Why can $RAWBIN_DIR be ignored when wrapping? If the build system
> just sets $X during its wrappers, but the application needs $Y as well
> (wrapped in a build phase), then if the extra wrapping is cancelled,
> then the application won't get its $Y variable, which seems like a bug
> to me.
>
> Greetings,
> Maxime.
It should be pretty easy to detect a wrapped binary without moving it.
We could just include a magic string in it and scan for that, the exact
same way we scan for store references. If it contains the "wrapped"
magic UUID, it's wrapped.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-28 23:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-04-28 16:37 The case for moving raw binaries Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-04-28 16:50 ` Maxime Devos
2022-04-28 16:55 ` Maxime Devos
2022-04-28 17:27 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-04-28 19:57 ` Maxime Devos
2022-04-28 22:52 ` raingloom [this message]
2022-04-29 9:39 ` Maxime Devos
2022-04-29 4:13 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-04-29 9:27 ` Maxime Devos
2022-04-29 16:59 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-07-29 21:20 ` Philip McGrath
2022-07-30 6:11 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-08-04 8:54 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-08-04 16:53 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
2022-04-29 9:18 ` zimoun
2022-05-23 15:10 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-05-23 16:03 ` Maxime Devos
2022-05-23 16:37 ` Liliana Marie Prikler
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