Hi Felix, Felix Lechner <felix.lech...@lease-up.com> writes:
> Hi Maxim, > > On Tue, Dec 12 2023, Maxim Cournoyer wrote: > >> it means bash-minimal should be explicitly added to the inputs, >> otherwise when cross-building the package for another architecture the >> native bash captured wouldn't be executable on the target. > > The core-updates branch has a lot of new 'bash-minimal' additions, > presumably for cross-building. Maybe this is a good opportunity to ask > about something I have been working on. > > As part of a broader effort to make development in scripting language > like GNU Guile easier, I rewrote the executable wrapper so that it uses > Guile instead of Bash. My initial hope was that the Guile wrapper could > use /run/current-system/profile/bin/guile (and thereby avoid an explicit > Bash prerequisite) but it is only available on Guix System. Yes, the problem with that would be portability when using anything but a Guix System machine. > My Guile wrapper will eventually reach you as part of a proposal to > migrate Guix from the Automake build system to my very own Bespoke, > which is likewise written in Guile. Meanwhile, please let me know if > there is any use for a Guile wrapper (instead of Bash). Thanks! Sounds fun! You may be interested in looking at 'wrap-script', which already leverages Guile for use in wrappers. -- Thanks, Maxim
