Subject: Re: [bug#39807] [PATCH] guix: pack: Only wrap executable files.

From: Eric Bavier <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 11:21:57 -0500

On Wed, 2020-10-21 at 17:35 +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi Eric,
> 
> Eric Bavier <[email-masked]> skribis:
> 
> >                (mkdir-p (dirname result))
> >                (apply invoke #$compiler "-std=gnu99" "-static" "-Os" "-g0" "-Wall"
> >                       "run.c" "-o" result
> > +                     (string-append "-DWRAPPER_PROGRAM=\"" result "\"")
> 
> Can we just write (canonical-path result) here?  That way we wouldn’t
> need ‘find-input-files’ and related changes.
> 

Guile's canonicalize-path will raise and error if the path does not
already exist.  We could create a dummy file at result, then call
canonicalize-path? but that seems clumsier than forming a canonical
name in the first place?

`~Eric