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