bug#41037: documentation for application developers?

[Ludovic Courtès]

HI Bruno,

Bruno Haible <address@hidden> skribis:

> I'm searching for documentation for application developers, regarding
> tips for porting from ordinary Linux distros to GNU guix.

There’s no such documentation.  However, for applications that follow
“good practices”, there really isn’t any porting to do.

> I would expect to find these issues discussed, at least:
>   - hard-coded program names like /bin/pwd

These should be avoided; it’s not Guix-specific, but the problem is
obviously more acute here.  What Guix packages do is patch them.

>   - where is /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 ?

It’s in the glibc package:

  ls $(guix build glibc | grep '[0-9]$')/lib

What’s your use case?

>   - libtool, ldconfig issues

‘ldconfig’ is not used.  Nothing special for Libtool.
Do you have something in mind?

Thanks,
Ludo’.