From: Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com>
To: jgart <jgart@dismail.de>, Guix Devel <guix-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Why are build systems separated into two modules?
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2022 17:09:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8c25529a8ea39d1ba946946b58b1ea84c7d07601.camel@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220917085127.GB28394@dismail.de>
Am Samstag, dem 17.09.2022 um 08:51 -0500 schrieb jgart:
> Hi Guixers,
>
> Why are build systems separated into two modules?
>
> Why can't an entire build system be contained in a single module?
>
> Just trying to understand the background design decisions that went
> into that for my own knowledge and understanding.
This way it's easier to separate what goes into the build (guix build
my-build-system) and what doesn't (guix build-system my). The closure
of available modules at build time is declared in the #:arguments and
gets default-initialized to the %my-build-system-modules.
HTH
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-17 15:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-17 13:51 Why are build systems separated into two modules? jgart
2022-09-17 15:09 ` Liliana Marie Prikler [this message]
2022-10-01 16:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2022-10-02 18:58 ` jgart
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