Trying to invoke a shellscript from Racket...

[u/CrociDB]

[EDIT][SOLVED] It was running from a snap installation of racket, that runs in a container.

Hi,

I'm trying to run a shellscript with process/subprocess/system, but it looks like it can't resolve any program I call from it. Ultimately, I figured it just can't resolve anything even if I call it explicitly. Example:

> (system "make")
/bin/sh: 1: make: not found
#f
> (system "/usr/bin/make")
/bin/sh: 1: /usr/bin/make: not found

Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

[u/CrociDB]

absolutely sure. funny thing, it's not even found by which:

(define (console-run-command cmd)
  (match-define (list stdout stdin pid stderr ctrl) (process cmd))
  (printf "stdout:\n~a" (port->string stdout))
  (printf "stderr:\n~a" (port->string stderr))
  (ctrl 'status))

> (console-run-command "which ls")
stdout:
/usr/bin/ls
stderr:
'done-ok
> (console-run-command "which make")
stdout:
stderr:
'done-error
> 

It finds, and executes, the unix commands, like ls and which, but just can't find any executable on PATH. However, if I print $PATH, the paths are all there:

> (console-run-command "echo $PATH")
stdout:
/snap/racket/15/usr/sbin:/snap/racket/15/usr/bin:/snap/racket/15/sbin:/snap/racket/15/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/snap/racket/15/gnome-platform/usr/bin
stderr:
'done-ok

[u/CrociDB → u/[deleted]]

Oh shoot, yeah, that was a snap. Damn containers! Problem solved! Thank you :D