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From: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Subject: Re: fgrep fails to find grep during bootstrap
Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2016 19:59:44 -0400
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csanchezdll@gmail.com (Carlos S=C3=A1nchez de La Lama) writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to bootstrap for powerpc-linux. I have generated the
> tarballs and patched gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm to use them.
>
> However, I get an error during when creating %bootstrap-coreutils&co
> package. It specifies "fgrep" as program to test, but fgrep is a shell
> script, and altought the shebang is correctly patched, it needs "grep"
> binary in the path (which is not at this stage). fgrep does:
>
> exec grep -F "$@"
>
> so this can not work unless grep is available in PATH.

I've fixed this problem on the core-updates branch:

http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit/?h=3Dcore-updates&id=3D106=
3d325ea76aa2b00dfcd3d436b16e412103df1

      Mark