From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jean Louis Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Why is this not working (apply + call-process + list of string args)? Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2022 18:12:56 +0300 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31736"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Mutt/+ () (2022-06-11) Cc: gnu-emacs-help@gnu.org To: Arthur Miller Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 15 21:18:59 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1oYuO2-00084T-UX for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2022 21:18:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59238 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oYuO1-0002ni-Qh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:18:57 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:58954) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oYuNd-0002na-KS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:18:33 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:53160) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oYuNd-0005XF-7D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:18:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:37560) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oYuNc-0003R7-WE for gnu-emacs-help@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:18:33 -0400 Original-Received: from stw1.rcdrun.com ([217.170.207.13]:58125) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oYuNa-0005Ca-Pi for gnu-emacs-help@gnu.org; Thu, 15 Sep 2022 15:18:32 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([::ffff:102.83.248.126]) (AUTH: PLAIN admin, TLS: TLS1.3,256bits,ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384) by stw1.rcdrun.com with ESMTPSA id 00000000000B5A74.0000000063237A64.00007A17; Thu, 15 Sep 2022 12:17:56 -0700 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.170.207.13; envelope-from=bugs@gnu.support; helo=stw1.rcdrun.com X-Spam_score_int: -2 X-Spam_score: -0.3 X-Spam_bar: / X-Spam_report: (-0.3 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DATE_IN_PAST_03_06=1.592, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:139494 Archived-At: * Arthur Miller [2022-09-15 17:03]: > I just wonder if someone can explain exact what is going on here: > > I have a list of strings of arruments I try to pass to configure script. It > looks something like this: > > #+begin_src emacs-lisp > (defvar args > '("--with-native-compilation " What I know is that there shall be no space in those arguments. Following worked well on my side: (defvar args '("--with-native-compilation" "--with-x" "--with-x-toolkit=no" "--without-gconf" "--without-gsettings" "--with-cairo" "--without-toolkit-scroll-bars" "--with-xinput2" "--without-included-regex" "--without-compress-install")) (defun configure (&rest args) (let ((command (expand-file-name "./configure"))) (apply #'call-process command nil nil nil args))) (apply #'configure args) Jean Take action in Free Software Foundation campaigns: https://www.fsf.org/campaigns In support of Richard M. Stallman https://stallmansupport.org/