2016-06-06 18:23 GMT+02:00 Thompson, David <[email protected]>:
> On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Catonano <[email protected]> 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
