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From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org>
Cc: bug-guix@gnu.org
Subject: Re: GNU Bazaar doesn't support the GNU build system
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 14:46:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wqv91e1g.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87libp8zkl.fsf@karetnikov.org> (Nikita Karetnikov's message of "Sat, 19 Jan 2013 01:19:24 -0500")

Nikita Karetnikov <nikita@karetnikov.org> skribis:

>> Like this: (system* "python" "setup.py" "install").
>
> Could you elaborate?

‘system*’ is a Guile procedure that works like system(3), except that it
executes the command directly, instead of via a shell.  So:

  (system* "python" "setup.py" "install")

runs the program ‘python’, found in $PATH, with the two arguments that
follow.

Does that clarify?

Thanks,
Ludo’.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-19 13:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-18  6:53 GNU Bazaar doesn't support the GNU build system Nikita Karetnikov
2013-01-18 13:11 ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-19  6:19   ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-01-19 13:46     ` Ludovic Courtès [this message]
2013-01-19 22:50       ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-01-20 14:26         ` Ludovic Courtès
2013-01-23  6:13           ` Nikita Karetnikov
2013-01-23 15:56             ` Ludovic Courtès

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