Subject: bug#56030: The guix pull profile is too big

From: Julien Lepiller <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 17:42:36 +0200

We're trying to avoid hard-coding bash-static in glibc, instead letting the build-system fill the value in dependents. So that can't be it, right?

Le 21 juillet 2022 17:11:56 GMT+02:00, "(" <[email-masked]> a écrit :
>
>And considering the definition of system(3) in glibc:
>
>@ sysdeps/posix/system.c (took me way too long to find this; glibc's
>source code is a maze ;))
>```
>#define SHELL_PATH	"/bin/sh"	/* Path of the shell.  */
>#define SHELL_NAME	"sh"		/* Name to give it.  */
>```
>
>couldn't we just use `-DSHELL_PATH=/gnu/store/...`?
>
>    -- (