root symptom:
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i think this is the guile binary that is used in initrd. it's been a while i
noted this bug. but if it's so, then if error happens early in the boot, then
it just dies with a sigsegv; i.e. it's a major hindrance to debuggability.
reproducer:
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guix shell -e '(begin (use-modules (gnu packages make-bootstrap))
%guile-static-stripped)'
and then start guile. or alternatively:
guile -c '(use-modules (ice-9 readline))'
analysis:
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make-guile-static-stripped calls (remove-store-references guile2) without
checking the return code.
if i remove that call, then building fails with: "... is not allowed to refer
to path `/gnu/store/3zl03prdg07ax4dny78hrzykillr6vcy-glibc-2.35'"
i.e. there's some reference in the binary to glibc, which is corrupted by
remove-store-references.
i'm not sure this is the cause, but i suspect.
note that the `guile --version` test in make-guile-static-stripped runs fine;
i.e. it's an insufficient test.
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