Re: Why does glibc provide bash?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:

> I see that glibc depends on static-bash as an input, but why would
> installing glibc cause me to have a static bash in my profile?

That’s because the static bash ends up being copied in glibc’s BINDIR.

> The circular dep issue sounds pretty exciting but it seems like there
> might be another bug here.  Dunno.  I wonder how Nix deals with this.

Nix has /bin/sh in its default build environment, so it doesn’t have
this problem but has a bunch of other issues.  ;-)

  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-guix/2013-01/msg00041.html

(Now, I need to think more about the options Mark suggests.)

Ludo’.