From: Catonano <catonano@gmail.com>
To: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: some code
Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2016 19:56:43 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ98PDwOfz0=Yab5=fDf2bMmUK7P4675P9n7Q8Xn=Jvxcyy54Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ=RwfZdO17BLH9qYmGT_T-+pXjWHF+98dX9UCojsuBLqfz9Bw@mail.gmail.com>
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2016-06-06 18:23 GMT+02:00 Thompson, David <dthompson2@worcester.edu>:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Catonano <catonano@gmail.com> wrote:
> > There's a piece of code (in the Emacs build system) I don't understand
> >
> > In "guix/build-system/emacs.scm" on line 97 there's a call to a function
> > called "emacs-build"
>
> That's not a procedure call, actually, because the entire form is
> quoted starting on line 95.
Ouch ! My bad !
> This code is generating a Guile script
> that will be used by guix-daemon to build an Emacs package. The
> "emacs-build" referenced within is actually the procedure found in
> (guix build emacs-build-system).
>
Ah !
>
> > Also what's with that "define*" ? Is there a manual page describing it ?
> I
> > couldn't find it
>
> See section 6.9.4.1 of the Guile manual:
>
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/lambda_002a-and-define_002a.html#lambda_002a-and-define_002a
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> - Dave
>
Thanks
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