Hi Jacob!
the dejagnu(1) launcher now first walks the PATH returned by `getconf PATH` (and then the user's $PATH) for an "sh" in search of a POSIX shell.
Does this also fix your problem?
Kind of. The getconf tool is missing in Guix, not only during the bootstrapping I'm trying. Actually it is part of glibc, but the glibc tools are usually not in PATH. If getconf is missing, the dejagnu script prints an annoying error message, which can be ignored: # LANG=C_LANG dejagnu --version dejagnu-1.6.3-checkout/dejagnu: line 76: getconf: command not found dejagnu auxiliary launcher (DejaGnu) 1.6.4-git Maybe change that line to suppress the error message: SysPATH=`getconf PATH 2> /dev/null` However, the path returned from getconf—if made available—is /bin:/usr/bin. But in a Guix build environment, for example when building and testing binutils, there is no /bin available and neither a /usr. So even if the getconf is provided during build, its result is a lie. But that's not the problem of dejagnu at all. Bye Stefan
