bug#41037: documentation for application developers?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi,

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> skribis:

>> It’s in the glibc package:
>> 
>>   ls $(guix build glibc | grep '[0-9]$')/lib
>> 
>> What’s your use case?
>
> So, the consequence is that a Guix user cannot send an executable
> to another Guix user and expect it to be runnable on the other machine.

True (but that’s generally the case on GNU/Linux and the reason why
things like Flatpak were built.)

To send an executable to another Guix machine, one would use ‘guix
copy’:

  https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Invoking-guix-copy.html

But more generally, people would share “channels” containing complete
build-from-source instructions, along with “substitutes” (pre-built
binaries):

  https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Channels.html
  https://guix.gnu.org/manual/en/html_node/Substitutes.html

HTH,
Ludo’.