From: "Thompson, David" <dthompson2@worcester.edu>
To: Catonano <catonano@gmail.com>
Cc: help-guix <help-guix@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: some code
Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 12:23:34 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ=RwfZdO17BLH9qYmGT_T-+pXjWHF+98dX9UCojsuBLqfz9Bw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ98PDyZ5Q5ObKnLR_Ly2sJuO4gcxXyOb0BKSK3=M49fWRuxJw@mail.gmail.com>
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. 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).
> 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
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2016-06-06 15:05 some code Catonano
2016-06-06 16:23 ` Thompson, David [this message]
2016-06-07 17:56 ` Catonano
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