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GNU Guix: How to run foreign binaries
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But you typically run different commands in different shells, so if you needed to run different gcc's, you could just create a customized chroot for each shell and make sure that all the tools are where they should be (/usr/bin/ /lib etc)
@tetris11 Typically but not always. Oftentimes guix runs on top of a foreign distribution, and then a chroot jail might be unhelpful.
how so? a chroot jail is a chroot jail. As long as you've got all your toys where they should be, what difference does it make to the distro?
@tetris11 Because guix as a general rule knows nothing about the underlying operating system, so you can't expect it to set things up as you describe.
oh, true. In my head chroot is just proc/sys/dev binding, but you're right that there are OS specific paths there too