From: Sree Harsha Totakura <sreeharsha@totakura.in>
To: Mark H Weaver <mhw@netris.org>
Cc: guix-devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Calling functions in `make-flags'
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 08:28:29 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5309A31D.30304@totakura.in> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8761o6jqo0.fsf@yeeloong.lan>
On 02/23/2014 07:20 AM, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> As for why 'which' didn't work, I suspect it's because this code is
> evaluated very early in the build process, before the PATH variable has
> been set.
>
> You can use 'which' in the code segments passed to #:phases because
> those are wrapped with 'lambda', which defines an anonymous procedure.
> The procedure returned by that lambda expression is not called until
> it's time to run the phase. At that point, PATH is set.
>
> Does that make sense?
Yes, a lot! :-)
Thank you Mark.
Sree
prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-23 7:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-22 1:13 Calling functions in `make-flags' Sree Harsha Totakura
2014-02-22 7:34 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-02-22 9:07 ` Sree Harsha Totakura
2014-02-23 6:20 ` Mark H Weaver
2014-02-23 7:28 ` Sree Harsha Totakura [this message]
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