(address . bug-guix@gnu.org)
From ca. commit 2183db8d2ab773f41e4320367645880b06959bfc:
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$ guix size gimp | head -4
store item total self
/gnu/store/wdm2s2si8fqsrcd5xpc29ivmpkf20s8d-mesa-21.3.8 411.6 169.6 14.1%
/gnu/store/6pdzpmxg5afzss6dlivq8z84sfa31x22-llvm-11.0.0 221.5 149.5 12.4%
/gnu/store/069aq2v993kpc41yabp5b6vm4wb9jkhg-gcc-10.3.0 217.7 145.8 12.1%
$ guix graph --path -t references /gnu/store/m4s1ghyqp05irx8acz2mqa68lyclcsrz-gimp-2.10.32 /gnu/store/069aq2v993kpc41yabp5b6vm4wb9jkhg-gcc-10.3.0
/gnu/store/m4s1ghyqp05irx8acz2mqa68lyclcsrz-gimp-2.10.32
/gnu/store/069aq2v993kpc41yabp5b6vm4wb9jkhg-gcc-10.3.0
$ grep -r 069aq2v993kpc41yabp5b6vm4wb9jkhg /gnu/store/m4s1ghyqp05irx8acz2mqa68lyclcsrz-gimp-2.10.32
grep: /gnu/store/m4s1ghyqp05irx8acz2mqa68lyclcsrz-gimp-2.10.32/libexec/gimp-debug-tool-2.0: binary file matches
grep: /gnu/store/m4s1ghyqp05irx8acz2mqa68lyclcsrz-gimp-2.10.32/bin/gimp-console-2.10: binary file matches
grep: /gnu/store/m4s1ghyqp05irx8acz2mqa68lyclcsrz-gimp-2.10.32/bin/gimp-2.10: binary file matches
$ strings /gnu/store/m4s1ghyqp05irx8acz2mqa68lyclcsrz-gimp-2.10.32/bin/gimp-console-2.10 | grep -C3 069aq2v993kpc41yabp5b6vm4wb9jkhg
GNU Image Manipulation Program
Using built-in specs.
COLLECT_GCC=gcc
COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/gnu/store/069aq2v993kpc41yabp5b6vm4wb9jkhg-gcc-10.3.0/libexec/gcc/x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu/10.3.0/lto-wrapper
Target: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu
Configured with:
Thread model: posix
So the root cause is that GIMP’s build process captures the output of
‘gcc -v’, which leads to this unintended retention.
Ludo’.