Re: General Question: Execution of binaries not built for GuixSD

[Florian Paul Schmidt]

On 22.06.2016 01:21, christoph vogelsberg wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have a fresh installation of GuixSD and I'm keen of learning more. I struggle 
> with a concept and don't know how to circumvent best:
>
> Binaries built for ordinary Linux's (as, in my case, Firefox Developer Edition) 
> expect libraries on certain standard pathes which doesn't exist on GuixSD. I 
> found three possibilities that might work:
>
> * use fakechroot to make my user profile a pseudo root (disadvantage: I have no 
> experience, it seams there is no package for that)
> * create symbolic links (disadvantage: new builts get a new path with a hash 
> value and must be re-linked properly)
> * install a minimal Linux and use Guix instead of GuixSD (disadvantage: this 
> would the point where I had capitulated)
>
> My question: is there an already elabored way, documentation and so on, for 
> this specific problem?

There's a tool that you can use to hack library paths in ELF binaries. I 
once packaged the binary releases of firefox and thunderbird using that 
way, but I took the repos containing the package definitions offline due 
to licensing issues. You could use those as a starting point. If you 
wish I can dig out my local copies of the repos once I get home..

Regards,
Flo