On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 10:22:43PM +0200, Ludovic Court??s wrote:
ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Court??s) skribis:
> John Darrington <john@darrington.wattle.id.au> skribis:
>
>> Would it not be correct for guix to have
>>
>> confstr (_CS_PATH, buf, len);
>>
>> set the contents of buf with the bin directory of the currently
>> installed coreutils package?
>>
>> For me, it returns /bin:/usr/bin which is not correct.
>
> Fixing it is a bit tricky because:
>
> 1. The meaning of this variable is ill-defined. Specifically, POSIX
> says it ???is the value for the PATH environment variable that finds
> all standard utilities.??? By ???standard utilities???, surely they must
> be talking of ???guile???, ???guix???, ???herd???, and a couple of others, but
> we can???t be sure. ;-)
>
>
> 2. If CS_PATH refers to Coreutils, then that means that libc refers to
> Coreutils, which is inconvenient at best.
>
> 3. We could set CS_PATH to /run/current-system/profile/bin but that
> wouldn???t work on foreign distros.
>
> So I???m inclined to leave things as is.
I???ll close the bug if you don???t mind, but???
OK
> Did you find a situation where the invalid value was causing troubles?
??? I???m still interested in knowing this. :-)
I didn't find a technical trouble. Only political ones.
TIA,
Ludo???.
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