Am Donnerstag, dem 04.08.2022 um 10:54 +0200 schrieb Ludovic Courtès: > Hi, > > Liliana Marie Prikler <[email protected]> skribis: > > > Am Freitag, dem 29.07.2022 um 17:20 -0400 schrieb Philip McGrath: > > > Hi, > > > > > > [...] > > > I was mildly annoyed recently with several programs that use the > > > ".foo-real" name in their `--help` output, for example: > > > > > > ``` > > > $ guix shell --pure reuse -- reuse -h > > > usage: .reuse-real [-h] [--debug] [--include-submodules] > > > ``` > > > > > > I wondered about just changing `wrap-program` to put the real > > > program > > > at `.real/foo` instead of `.foo-real`. One advantage is that it > > > wouldn't need any special cooperation like setting up an output > > > or an > > > environment variable. > > Even as the one who made the suggestion that issue has an easier > > workaround: Use exec -a to pass the 0th argument unchanged. > > That’s already happening: > > --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- > $ head -3 < $(guix build reuse)/bin/reuse | tail -1 > exec -a "$0" "/gnu/store/iwsddc43xqxz4ibncrd7cgv4qjdy0jjd-reuse- > 1.0.0/bin/.reuse-real" "$@" > --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- > > I’m not sure why it doesn’t have the desired effect though. I found out: it's because reuse is a python script and the exec -a hack stops working because python initializes sys.args using the filename.
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