Meson build can't detect coreutils on systems with non-monolith coreutils #376

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opened 2024-06-05 09:04:23 +00:00 by k900 · 3 comments

k900 commented

2024-06-05 09:04:23 +00:00

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coreutils = find_program('coreutils', native : true)

looks for a binary literally named coreutils, which is the multi-call binary, which does not exist for non-monolith builds of coreutils, e.g. Debian. We probably need to detect the actual executables we use.

Originally spotted by @vigress9:matrix.org on Matrix.

https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/src/commit/6e59b4b407c577e838ec39a4912be71f0aca36ca/meson.build#L313 looks for a binary literally named `coreutils`, which is the [multi-call binary](https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/Multi_002dcall-invocation.html), which does not exist for non-monolith builds of coreutils, e.g. Debian. We probably need to detect the actual executables we use. Originally spotted by @vigress9:matrix.org on Matrix.

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qyriad commented

2024-06-05 20:33:08 +00:00

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It seems like that's only ultimately used in two places:

and

path = "@coreutils@";

both simply to Have A Path where coreutils are. I'd really love to not need these things to depend on coreutils in the first place, honestly, but short of that, we could probably have Meson just look a specific coreutil and pass that

It seems like that's only ultimately used in two places: https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/src/commit/6e59b4b407c577e838ec39a4912be71f0aca36ca/tests/functional/bash-profile.sh#L3 and https://git.lix.systems/lix-project/lix/src/commit/6e59b4b407c577e838ec39a4912be71f0aca36ca/tests/functional/config.nix.in#L13 both simply to Have A Path where coreutils are. I'd really love to not need these things to depend on coreutils in the first place, honestly, but short of that, we could probably have Meson just look a specific coreutil and pass that

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vigress8 referenced this issue

2024-08-29 07:26:41 +00:00

Packaging lix for openSUSE: is the coreutils binary really needed? #470

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2024-10-25 11:26:31 +00:00

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This issue was mentioned on Gerrit on the following CLs:

commit message in cl/2108 ("chore: remove monolithic coreutils requirement")

This issue was mentioned on Gerrit on the following CLs: * commit message in [cl/2108](https://gerrit.lix.systems/c/lix/+/2108) ("chore: remove monolithic `coreutils` requirement")