[bug#37912] [PATCH] gnu: elixir: Update to 1.9.2.

[Marius Bakke]

Oskar Köök <address@hidden> writes:

> Although I must note that the end-result ends up ruining the whole point of 
> Elixir Releases.
>
> The point of an Elixir release is that you can package an application into a 
> stand-alone item. It will copy elixir & erlang (etc) as well as your 
> application into a single package, so you can run it without having elixir & 
> erlang installed on your system.
>
> I guess the single dependency here is /bin/sh: as long as it exists, you can 
> run the application from any system.
>
> If you were to generate a release with Guix, you would end up with scripts 
> that depend on the Guix store. So you can not run the stand-alone without 
> Guix.
>
> What is the solution to this? I would personally prefer to keep the actual 
> behaviour (if possible) and if needed, disable the tests.

The typical solution here is to reset the shebang after running the
tests.  I know there are a couple of packages doing this, but can't
recall which at the moment.

Can you try that?  Thanks for working on it!

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