Hi Danny,
> sorry to butt in but why in the world does tar require a shell?
Agreed, but that's something that should be fixed upstream in tar.
> A simple (and ugly) workaround for you would be:
>
> static _Noreturn void
> xexec (const char *cmd)
> {
> char *argv[4];
>
> if (strchr(cmd, ' ') == NULL) {
> argv[0] = cmd;
> argv[1] = NULL;
> } else {
> argv[0] = (char *) "/bin/sh";
> argv[1] = (char *) "-c";
> argv[2] = (char *) cmd;
> argv[3] = NULL;
> }
>
> execvp (argv[0], argv);
> exec_fatal (cmd);
> }
Looks like that will fix it, true, thougth it might be a little bit too
agressive patching on guix side. I would be more confortable finding a
way to use current tar (until, hopefully, this gets solved upstream).
> Even better would be to use tar for creating archives and xz for
> compression (in your case, in "make").
Yup, if "de-nuking" the references is not a possibility (I am still
considering it), then I wil try changing the build system so instead of
"tar cvfa file.xz", "tar cv | xz" is used.
Thanks!
Carlos
