Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Re: bug#62181: Gnulib package keeps references to clisp, Python, Perl, and Bash

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2023 11:41:00 +0100

Hello!

Vivien Kraus <[email-masked]> skribis:

> These were shebangs in the build auxiliary scripts. Itâ€™s a tough problem,
> because if I undo all the patch shebangs after installation, then gnulib is
> not usable in the gnu-build-system bootstrap phase without a few more
> tweaks.

Is it really a problem?  Apart from ‘gnulib-tool’, every script is first
copied into the source tree, and that happens before the
‘patch-source-shebangs’ phase no?

> In any case, #:allowed-reference is a gnu-build-system thing, so we canâ€™t use that for gnulib.

True; we should add it to other build systems.

Thanks,
Ludo’.