Re: Funny reference in bootstrap bash-static

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hello!

Pjotr Prins <address@hidden> skribis:

> The static version of bash contains a number of non-existant references. They 
> look harmless enough and are probably used
> for bootstrapping. 
>
> Contains /gnu/store reference in 
> gnu/store/7jhakv1r1nbs2sr2f7ammq256w7niarh-bash-static-4.3.39/bin/bash
> 1127848 
> /gnu/store/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-bash-static-4.3.39/share/bashdb/bashdb-main.inc
> 1179560 
> /gnu/store/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-glibc-intermediate-2.22/lib/gconv/gconv-modules.cache
> 1183296 
> /gnu/store/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-glibc-intermediate-2.22/share/locale
> 1183432 
> /gnu/store/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-glibc-intermediate-2.22/share/locale
> 1222784 
> /gnu/store/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-glibc-intermediate-2.22/share/zoneinfo
> 1226344 
> /gnu/store/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-glibc-intermediate-2.22/libexec/getconf
> 1235648 
> /gnu/store/eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-glibc-intermediate-2.22/lib/

This is on purpose: this is done by the ‘remove-store-references’ call
in the ‘bash-static’ recipe so that ‘bash-static’ has no dependencies
other than itself.

> The thing is that the hello package ultimately references these through
>
> Contains /gnu/store reference in 
> gnu/store/qv7bk62c22ms9i11dhfl71hnivyc82k2-glibc-2.22/bin/xtrace
>       0 
> #!/gnu/store/7jhakv1r1nbs2sr2f7ammq256w7niarh-bash-static-4.3.39/bin/bash
>     903 
> pcprofileso='/gnu/store/qv7bk62c22ms9i11dhfl71hnivyc82k2-glibc-2.22/\$LIB/libpcprofile.so'
>     994 
> pcprofiledump='/gnu/store/qv7bk62c22ms9i11dhfl71hnivyc82k2-glibc-2.22/bin/pcprofiledump'
>
> which means that most packages do. It would probably make sense to have 
> xtrace point to a full bash. No?

‘xtrace’ just needs a minimal shell interpreter, so that’s fine.  See
‘glibc-final-with-bootstrap-bash’ and below in (gnu packages
commencement) for the whole story.

HTH!

Ludo’.