Re: bug#46537: ‘uname -s’ from Gash-Utils-Boot returns nothing

[Efraim Flashner]

On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 04:16:29PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> (+Cc: gash-devel.)
> 
> Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il> skribis:
> 
> > On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 06:24:46PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> >> Gash-Utils ‘uname’ seems to be confused:
> >> 
> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> >> $ $(guix build -e '(@@ (gnu packages commencement) 
> >> gash-utils-boot)')/bin/uname -a
> >> Linux ribbon 5.10.10-gnu #1 SMP 1 x86_64 GNU/Linux
> >> $ $(guix build -e '(@@ (gnu packages commencement) 
> >> gash-utils-boot)')/bin/uname -s
> >> 
> >> $ guix describe
> >> Generacio 175      Feb 04 2021 22:52:40    (nuna)
> >>   guix 5ae09d7
> >>     repository URL: https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/guix.git
> >>     branch: master
> >>     commit: 5ae09d7979a0696d862b9555314eab199f7ce576
> >> $ uname -s
> >> Linux
> >> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
> 
> I forgot to mention the ‘uname -s’ problem is hidden by the fact that we
> always pass ‘--build’ to ‘configure’.  When we don’t do that,
> ‘config.guess’ runs and fails.
> 
> > From eedd0ee769393eea3fcb9b7131d469ea15d9f179 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Efraim Flashner <efraim@flashner.co.il>
> > Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2021 11:50:20 +0200
> > Subject: [PATCH] uname: Fix uname -s.
> >
> > * gash/commands/uname.scm (uname): Remove duplicate kernel-name? match.
> > ---
> >  gash/commands/uname.scm | 1 -
> >  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/gash/commands/uname.scm b/gash/commands/uname.scm
> > index 2a89c6a..fa15c69 100644
> > --- a/gash/commands/uname.scm
> > +++ b/gash/commands/uname.scm
> > @@ -49,7 +49,6 @@
> >           (processor? (option-ref options 'processor #f))
> >           (hardware-platform? (option-ref options 'hardware-platform #f))
> >           (operating-system? (option-ref options 'operating-system #f))
> > -         (kernel-name? (not (or all? kernel-name? node-name? 
> > kernel-release? kernel-version? machine? processor? hardware-platform? 
> > operating-system?)))
> 
> I wonder if this should be kept but changed to:
> 
>   (kernel-name? (or kernel-name? (not (or …))))

With it changed to this:
(ins)efraim@3900XT ~/workspace/gash-utils$ 
/gnu/store/9mb28yyzfh6pr4yk5nyy42vrfbj8caxp-gash-utils-boot-0.1.0.107-eedd-dirty/bin/uname
 -s
Linux

> 
> but I’m not entirely sure about the logic.
> 
> Gash folks, WDYT?
> 
> Thanks,
> Ludo’.


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