Re: 'build-use-chroot = true' leads to 'ERROR: In procedure system*: No such file or directory'

[Ludovic Courtès]

Nikita Karetnikov <address@hidden> skribis:

> build-chroot-dirs = /dev /proc /bin

[...]

>    ?: 0 [system* "./configure" ...]
>
> ERROR: In procedure system*:
> ERROR: In procedure system*: No such file or directory

Is /bin/sh a symlink?  If it is, its target has to be in one of the
directories listed in ‘build-chroot-dirs’.

But more importantly, /bin/sh is likely to be a dynamically-linked
executable, linked against stuff from /lib, which is not in
‘build-chroot-dirs’.  Thus, it won’t run in the chroot.

An option is to replace /bin/sh by the statically-linked Bash that’s in
distro/packages/bootstrap/*-linux/bash.

Another one, which I think we’ll do, is to change gnu-build-system.scm
to either run (system* "/path/to/our/bash" "./configure" ...), or call
‘patch-shebangs’ on ‘configure’.

HTH,
Ludo’.