[Nix-dev] Inexplicable replaceRuntimeDependencies assertion failure

[Vladimír Čunát]

I forgot to explain this one:

On 12/04/2016 01:43 AM, Mark Laws wrote:
> 2) Why does the assertion even exist?

It rewrites string references in any binaries that reference the
packages being replaced. That is slightly fragile by itself, and if it
changed the *lengths* of those strings, shifting addresses of many
places in the binary, it would very likely break something.

--Vladimir


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