phodina via <[email protected]> writes:
Hi,
what is the best way to detect the GuixSD OS during the build?
Why is distro detection desirable? I often found myself trying to
work around buggy distro detection.
(BTW: it’s called “Guix System”, not “GuixSD”.)
I encountered the problem during build of realmd in the
configure.ac [1].
Some distros have special file in /etc. So my first idea was to
use /etc/config.scm. However, this is not visible during the
package build.
It is also not necessary to have /etc/config.scm. I, for example,
have all my system configurations in a different directory.
Therefore I went with the /gnu/store. This works but I'm
interested if there isn't even a better option.
[1]
https://github.com/freedesktop/realmd/blob/master/configure.ac
Guix is often used on top of other distros, so the presence of
/gnu/store is not enough to be sure that the distro is Guix
System.
--
Ricardo
