octave needs to be wrapped with coreutils

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  • Efraim Flashner
  • Ludovic Courtès
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Efraim Flashner wrote on 16 Mar 2021 12:46
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I tracked down a bug where octave has a function called 'copyfile' which
shells out to call 'cp -r' but in an environment without coreutils, or
when in a script with PATH unset, it fails.

try it out with the following:
touch foo
guix environment --pure --ad-hoc octave-cli -- \
octave --eval 'copyfile("foo","bar");'

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Ludovic Courtès wrote on 18 Mar 2021 21:43
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tags 47189 + easy
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