From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Vincent Legoll Subject: Re: Newbie packagers Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 09:13:14 +0200 Message-ID: References: <87bn1rm1gk.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44553) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQUe7-0003Cv-Hx for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 03:13:20 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bQUe5-0005ja-VD for help-guix@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jul 2016 03:13:18 -0400 In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: =?UTF-8?Q?Ludovic_Court=C3=A8s?= Cc: help-guix@gnu.org Just to see if I understood properly... In the hello.scm example, there is : (arguments `(#:configure-flags '("--enable-silent-rules"))) 1 - can the quasiquote be replaced by a regular quote, because unquote is not used ? I'd guess yes, now I'll try it... So, it seems like we can change the quasiquote to a simple quote. A question remains, why do the configure flags need to be a quoted list ? Is it because it could be a function call evaluated by the gnu-build-system which has to return a list of strings ? That would mean the following should work: (arguments `(#:configure-flags (lambda () (list "--enable-silent-rules")))) -- Vincent Legoll