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Re: Guix as a native-inputs ?
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Olivier Dion |
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Re: Guix as a native-inputs ? |
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Mon, 01 Aug 2022 18:05:22 -0400 |
On Mon, 01 Aug 2022, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me@tobias.gr> wrote:
> As ( implies, it's a strange thing to do. There might be a better
> solution to whatever your unspecified problem is.
Here's my full use case.
I do dynamic binary instrumentation. I basicaly insert call/jump at
runtime in programs for executing callback. I use Guix for its workflow
extension (GWL) to produce scientific metrics for my research. I also
use Guix to run binaries in a profile with debug symbols available. The
latter case is a stress test to see if the instrumenter keep the
integrity of the instrumented software.
For example I want to instrument `ls' from coreutils. So I would need
`coreutils' and `coreutils:debug'. These _could_ be added to the
native-inputs of my package. However, I also want to test
instrumentation on many packages (~50). These other packages lack the
`:debug' output that is required by my tools. Furthermore, I don't want
to add a very long list of packages to my native-inputs and maintain it.
So what I do is that I have a Guix channel inside my project. Inside
that channel I define all the packages that I need with the debug output
added. I can then use them for testing like so
`guix shell -L .guix my-git my-git:debug'.
If you think there's a better solution then I'm open to heard it.
--
Olivier Dion
oldiob.dev
- Re: Guix as a native-inputs ?, (continued)
- Re: Guix as a native-inputs ?, (, 2022/08/01
- Re: Guix as a native-inputs ?, Olivier Dion, 2022/08/02
- Re: Guix as a native-inputs ?, (, 2022/08/02
- Re: Guix as a native-inputs ?, Olivier Dion, 2022/08/02
- Re: Guix as a native-inputs ?, Julien Lepiller, 2022/08/02
- Re: Guix as a native-inputs ?, Olivier Dion, 2022/08/02
- Re: Guix as a native-inputs ?, Julien Lepiller, 2022/08/02
- Re: Guix as a native-inputs ?, Olivier Dion, 2022/08/03
Re: Guix as a native-inputs ?, (, 2022/08/01
Re: Guix as a native-inputs ?, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice, 2022/08/01
- Re: Guix as a native-inputs ?,
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