bug#47064: [racket-users] bytevector-uncompress: internal error uncompressing

[jackhill]

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