Hi,

zimoun <[email protected]> skribis:

> On Sun, 17 May 2020 at 23:53, Ludovic Courtès <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> > Naively: does it make sense to move it to "guix/build/utils.scm"?
>>
>> No because it depends on (guix build syscalls) for ‘mkdtemp!’ and
>> there’s currently that assumption that (1) (guix build utils) can be
>> used on a statically-linked Guile, and (2) it has no dependencies.
>
> Thank you for the explanations.  I am not sure to understand the
> assumption (1) but never mind.

Regarding (1): a statically-linked Guile cannot call ‘dynamic-link’ to
access libc symbols, so it cannot use FFI bindings to libc such as those
in (guix build syscalls).

HTH!

Ludo’.

Reply via email to