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Building from git breaks when /bin/sh isn't bash

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From: "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflorian <at> pelzflorian.de>
To: elaexuotee <at> wilsonb.com
Cc: 40641 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#40641: Building from git breaks when /bin/sh isn't bash
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2022 11:02:54 +0200

Thank you for getting back to the bug.  I am in the same situation in
that I use Guix System now. :D

On Tue, Jun 21, 2022 at 09:20:28AM +0900, elaexuotee <at> wilsonb.com wrote:
> so you could be able to sanity
> check with something like
> 
>     $ guix shell -C dash guix make <etc>
>     $ ln -s $(command -v dash) /bin/sh
>     $ ./configure --localstatedir && make

I had done exactly this.

guix shell --container --network dash git pkg-config gnutls guile guile-avahi guile-gcrypt guile-json guile-lib guile-sqlite3 guile-zlib guile-lzlib guile-zstd guile-ssh guile-git autoconf automake gettext texinfo graphviz help2man po4a findutils sed coreutils tar xz m4 diffutils grep gcc-toolchain sqlite libgcrypt gawk make glibc-locales -- dash

Many tests fail because of the container though, so I’m not sure how
big the effect is.  At least tests/guix-package.sh still use type -P
which is not POSIX, but I don’t think it should be changed nor should
there be a check if $SHELL can do what we need, because we don’t know
which bash features we need.

Regards,
Florian

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