[Nix-dev] /bin in chroot builds

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Michael,

Michael Raskin <7c6f434c at mail.ru> skribis:

> 1) ./configure has /bin/sh as interpreter

There’s way more than this.  Any trivial script (notably build scripts)
that requires a vaguely POSIX shell will have that.  Take a random
package and grep for /bin/sh.

> 2) glibc uses /bin/sh for system()
>
> The second problem needs a patch for glibc, and it can break subtly;

And it would increase the footprint of stdenv, because there’d be an
additional Bash kept around.

All in all, I wouldn’t worry about /bin/sh, because I have the
impression that the risks largely outweigh the benefits.

Thanks,
Ludo’.