Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis: > We currently use gnu/packages/patches/guile-relocatable.patch to set the > system load path in the bootstrap guile. However, that patch depends on > /proc/self/exe which is not present on the Hurd. Therefore, I came up > with another approach in the attached patch. After unpacking the > bootstrap guile, we use it to create its own wrapper that sets the > GUILE_SYSTEM_PATH and GUILE_SYSTEM_COMPILED_PATH environment variables.
That sounds nice! > My only concern is that these variables will be present in the > environment in any subprograms launched by the bootstrap guile, and so > if the bootstrap guile ever tries to run a different version of guile, > those variable settings may cause trouble. Good point. I think that happens when ‘guile-final’ gets built, but you mentioned that it built perfectly, right? But in that case it’s OK because meta/uninstalled-env overrides GUILE_SYSTEM_* anyway. > From 885997fec1f0a175279edbf56b86050731892148 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> > Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 12:31:32 -0400 > Subject: [PATCH] gnu: bootstrap: Create a wrapper for guile to set the system > load path. > > * gnu/packages/bootstrap.scm (raw-build): After unpacking, use the bootstrap > guile to create its own wrapper that sets the guile system load path. [...] > + (make-guile-wrapper > + '(begin Could you add a comment above mentioning that this replaces the previous non-portable option based on /proc/self/exe? OK for core-updates. Thanks for helping out with this! Ludo’.
