GNU bug report logs - #54304
[PATCH] Don't fix git executable location during Elixir build

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: Cees de Groot <cg <at> evrl.com>

Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2022 20:53:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

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Message #44 received at 54304 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Cees de Groot <cg <at> evrl.com>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
Cc: 54304 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
Subject: Re: [bug#54304] [PATCH] Don't fix git executable location during
 Elixir build
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2022 21:33:57 +0000
On Wednesday, March 9th, 2022 at 16:49, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr> wrote:
> If BEAM somehow obfuscates store references we'll have to find a similar work-around to stop it. Let us know what you find.
>
Yup. BEAM files have literals stored in a single Deflated blob (https://beam-wisdoms.clau.se/en/latest/indepth-beam-file.html). So the scanning won't work.

Which means that either my patches should be merged or Git should be propagated. I'm not a super big fan of propagating optional dependencies, which is why I submitted the patch like this.




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