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> Perhaps we need a "--rootfs" option? This could give a local path to
> find binaries that will be located on the root of the target.  i.e. for
> translation we'd look at "$rootfs/usr/bin/foo", but at runtime
> task-finder would match simply "/usr/bin/foo".

This is the analogue of the standard "sysroot" feature in other tools.