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[PATCH 0/6] gnu: Update Racket to 8.6. Add Zuo.

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From: "Philip McGrath" <philip <at> philipmcgrath.com>
To: "Liliana Marie Prikler" <liliana.prikler <at> gmail.com>, "Maxime Devos" <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>, 57050 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Efraim Flashner <efraim <at> flashner.co.il>, Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauermann <at> kolabnow.com>
Subject: [bug#57050] [PATCH v2 04/13] gnu: Add Zuo.
Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2022 01:47:23 -0400

On Wed, Aug 24, 2022, at 1:42 AM, Liliana Marie Prikler wrote:
> Am Dienstag, dem 23.08.2022 um 20:27 -0400 schrieb Philip McGrath:
>> 
>> > Even simpler would be to substitute* the /bin/sh to (search-input-
>> > file inputs "bin/sh") like
>> > done for other packages.
>> 
>> Unfortunately, that doesn't work well here. We cannot refer to store
>> paths in Racket or Chez source code (as opposed to C code) because
>> the grafter cannot handle the format of compiled code: see
>> <https://issues.guix.gnu.org/47180#6>. (I don't know about Zuo image
>> dumps, but the binary format is unspecified, so it seems safer not
>> to.)
> We are talking about some C source code, though, so I doubt this point
> is relevant, is it?

For rktio and Zuo, the string "/bin/sh" doesn't appear in the C source code, only in the Racket/Zuo libraries.

-Philip

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