Re: How to find binaries in libexec dir?

[Liliana Marie Prikler]

Am Sonntag, dem 17.04.2022 um 12:27 -0700 schrieb Vagrant Cascadian:
> On 2022-04-17, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> > On Sat, 16 Apr 2022 16:21:50 -0700
> > Vagrant Cascadian <vagrant@reproducible-builds.org> wrote:
> > 
> > > But libxmlb ships the xb-tool binary in libexec, which diffoscope
> > > cannot find on guix.
> ...
> > I've looked upstream https://github.com/hughsie/libxmlb and it
> > says, very close to the beginning (so it's a main feature
> > apparently):
> > 
> > > $ xb-tool compile fedora.xmlb fedora.xml.gz
> > 
> > Well, for that to work, xb-tool should be in bin.
> > 
> > I'd file a bug report with libxmlb to move xb-tool to bin.
> 
> Good suggestion, we'll see where it goes!
> 
>   Please install xb-tool into bin instead of libexec
>   https://github.com/hughsie/libxmlb/issues/123
> 
> 
> In the meantime, would it be reasonable to workaround this in guix by
> patching libxmlb to include xb-tool in bin, either by moving it
> there, or symlinking it from there?
You do realize search-input-file works with libexec/ as well, right? 
Just expand the command to its store path like we do for most commands
out there.

Cheers