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Fish embeds store file names in UCS-4/UTF-32 literal strings

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Message #44 received at 30265 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz>
Cc: rekado <at> elephly.net, meiyo.peng <at> gmail.com, 30265 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Nils Gillmann <ng0 <at> n0.is>
Subject: Re: bug#30265: Fish shell has wrong path variables
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2018 14:05:50 +0200

Pierre Neidhardt <mail <at> ambrevar.xyz> skribis:

> - Is the issue here that grafting does not support wide string literals?
>   Shouldn't we fix the Guix code to support wide strings as well?

I’m not too keen on doing that: the scanner in (guix build grafts) would
have to be quite different if it were to catch /gnu/store references
burried in wide strings.  That’d be a real challenge.

The proposed changes (using Fish’ relocatability mechanism or ensuring
that the /gnu/store references are in char[] arrays) would be far
easier.

Let me know if you need clarifications regarding these.

Thanks,
Ludo’.

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