What the developer wrote
Authored by fanquake
guix: sqlite wants tcl
What changed, and why it matters
This commit adds the Tcl programming language package to the Guix build environment used to create reproducible Bitcoin Core releases. It is a build-system dependency fix, not a change to Bitcoin's wallet, networking, consensus, or node logic. There is no indication this introduces a security vulnerability or fixes one.
No security action needed. Treat as a routine build-system dependency update. Reviewers may verify that tcl is only used at build time and does not become part of released binaries unless intended.
Security signals we found
No strong security signals were identified.
Evidence from the diff
The diff modifies contrib/guix/manifest.scm to import (gnu packages tcl) and add tcl to the list of native build inputs. The commit message says ‘sqlite wants tcl’, indicating Tcl is required as a build-time dependency (likely for SQLite’s test infrastructure or build scripts during Guix packaging). No runtime or consensus code is changed.
Changed components
contrib/guix/manifest.scmInspect captured patch +2 / −0
diff --git a/contrib/guix/manifest.scm b/contrib/guix/manifest.scm
index 59837e96..ddc4d05e 100644
--- a/contrib/guix/manifest.scm
+++ b/contrib/guix/manifest.scm
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
((gnu packages python-crypto) #:select (python-asn1crypto))
((gnu packages python-science) #:select (python-scikit-build-core))
((gnu packages python-xyz) #:select (python-pydantic-2))
+ (gnu packages tcl)
((gnu packages tls) #:select (openssl))
((gnu packages version-control) #:select (git-minimal))
(guix build-system cmake)
@@ -547,6 +548,7 @@ inspecting signatures in Mach-O binaries.")
cmake-minimal
gnu-make
ninja
+ tcl
;; Scripting
python-minimal ;; (3.10)
;; Git
Why this scored 15/100
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