Hi, On Thu, 16 Sept 2021 at 17:29, Jack Hill <[email protected]> wrote:
> Many of the commands, e.g. ps2pdf, provided by the ghostscript package are > implemented as shell scripts that do some argument or file name processing > before invoking the main gs binary. These scripts invoke external commands > like basename, awk, dirname, and even gs by dynamically looking them up > PATH. Instead, they should refer to a specific path in the store so that > the behavior of ghostscript doesn't depend on the environment and so that > Guix can see these references. Indeed. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- $ guix environment -C --ad-hoc ghostscript [env]$ ps2pdf --version /gnu/store/jc3x02w3dmbff7s5r7g2d21r2jswag4p-profile/bin/ps2pdf: line 8: dirname: command not found /gnu/store/jc3x02w3dmbff7s5r7g2d21r2jswag4p-profile/bin/ps2pdf14: line 3: dirname: command not found /gnu/store/jc3x02w3dmbff7s5r7g2d21r2jswag4p-profile/bin/ps2pdfwr: line 7: dirname: command not found /gnu/store/jc3x02w3dmbff7s5r7g2d21r2jswag4p-profile/bin/ps2pdfwr: line 24: basename: command not found Usage: [options...] (input.[e]ps|-) [output.pdf|-] --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- The fix would to add these external commands as 'inputs' and then let 'wrap-program'. Do you want to give a try? Cheers, simon
