On Mon, 15 Mar 2021, Philip McGrath wrote:
Aha! Running:
guix environment --ad-hoc --no-grafts racket -- drracket
launches DrRacket just fine.
My guess is that Racket CS is compressing string literals in compiled code.
Currently, Guix patches Racket source files to include the absolute paths to
foreign libraries in the store as string literals. There are a bunch of
grafts for GTK and such: if I'm right, Guix somehow mangles the compiled code
while attempting to apply the grafts.
I already thought this strategy was a bad idea. If it is really the problem,
I should be able to patch it fairly quickly: I've already been experimenting
along these lines.
Aha, that does sound promising. This certinially wouldn't be the only
grafts corner case:
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/33848
https://issues.guix.gnu.org/30265
Thanks for taking a look,
Jack
