From: Brian Cully <bjc@spork.org>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be>
Cc: 42164@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42164: Combining file-append with gexps results in incomprehensible errors
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2022 16:40:08 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877d7f7cn4.fsf@ditto.jhoto.spork.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2bda48c996ac6b0bae970d8e5559675d6984ac51.camel@telenet.be>
Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> writes:
> Proposed implementation:
>
> (define (output thing output)
> (gexp-input package output))
>
> Seems like this thing already exists, it's just not well-known and not
> documented in the manual.
Where is this in the code? I couldn’t find it myself (grepping
for these keywords turns up a lot of false positives). On the off chance
it might work, I did try ‘(file-append (output pkg "lib") "/path")’ and
was told that ‘output’ is an unbound variable.
-bjc
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-04-23 21:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-02 12:00 bug#42164: Combining file-append with gexps results in incomprehensible errors Jakub Kądziołka
2021-04-13 1:58 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2022-04-23 16:03 ` Brian Cully
2022-04-23 17:06 ` Maxime Devos
2022-04-23 17:29 ` Brian Cully
2022-04-23 18:38 ` Maxime Devos
2022-04-23 20:40 ` Brian Cully [this message]
2022-04-23 21:07 ` Maxime Devos
2022-04-24 23:27 ` Brian Cully
2022-04-25 6:20 ` Maxime Devos
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