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| author | Federico Beffa <beffa@fbengineering.ch> | 2015-06-21 10:10:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Federico Beffa <beffa@fbengineering.ch> | 2015-07-08 10:53:05 +0200 |
| commit | e9137a5310c8cfbcf36fcef689853958b0b5dc6f (patch) | |
| tree | d39ca1a6e12a44428b67bc615f560893354ef888 /doc/guix.texi | |
| parent | 1d44b4e544151f9911b3a19b522e5b9584ba7632 (diff) | |
build: Add 'emacs-build-system'.
* Makefile.am (MODULES): Add 'guix/build-system/emacs.scm' and
'guix/build/emacs-build-system.scm'.
* guix/build-system/emacs.scm: New file.
* guix/build/emacs-build-system.scm: New file.
* doc/guix.texi (Build Systems): Document it.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/guix.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index d10279e992..585017f5cf 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -2454,6 +2454,19 @@ Which Haskell compiler is used can be specified with the @code{#:haskell} parameter which defaults to @code{ghc}. @end defvr +@defvr {Scheme Variable} emacs-build-system +This variable is exported by @code{(guix build-system emacs)}. It +implements an installation procedure similar to the one of Emacs' own +packaging system (@pxref{Packages,,, emacs, The GNU Emacs Manual}). + +It first creates the @code{@var{package}-autoloads.el} file, then it +byte compiles all Emacs Lisp files. Differently from the Emacs +packaging system, the Info documentation files are moved to the standard +documentation directory and the @file{dir} file is deleted. Each +package is installed in its own directory under +@file{share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d}. +@end defvr + Lastly, for packages that do not need anything as sophisticated, a ``trivial'' build system is provided. It is trivial in the sense that it provides basically no support: it does not pull any implicit inputs, |