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Apparently the only reason that the `node --polyglot` added to test.sh
in the previous commit worked on my system is that it silently fell back
to `node --polyglot --jvm`; however, it’s *supposed* to run polyglot
Node + everything else as a native image, without a JVM. And apparently,
R can’t be built as a native image (for engineering reasons, I’ve been
told), so if it doesn’t fall back to --jvm mode, then our test doesn’t
work. Consequently, we should actually specify --polyglot --jvm.
The fallback happens when libpolyglot.so is missing. It’s supposed to be
built by `gu rebuild libpolyglot`, and apparently `gu` prints a message
recommending that you run this command when you use it to install a new
language; since we bypass gu, we should print a similar message in our
package installation process. We don’t directly run the command for the
same reason that gu doesn’t: it’s way too expensive, requiring over four
hours of CPU time on my system. Even as a hook, rather than a
post-install script (i.e. only running once at the end of all package
installs, not once per package), I can’t justify this expenditure for
everyone installing the package, especially since most people probably
won’t need this (evidently I’ve been using GraalVM for years without
ever having built libpolyglot.so). So we just make the hook print a
message for users, and they can hopefully decide for themselves if they
want to run the command or not. (If people ask about the message in the
AUR comments, we can probably iterate on the phrasing a bit.)
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