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authorJelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org>2016-08-23 05:23:55 +0200
committerJulien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>2019-07-14 12:20:48 +0200
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build: Add node-build-system.
* guix/build/node-build-system.scm: New file. * guix/build-system/node.scm: New file. * guix/build/json.scm: New file. * doc/guix.texi: Document it. * Makefile.am: Added new files. Co-Authored-By: Julien Lepiller <julien@lepiller.eu>
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@@ -6346,6 +6346,17 @@ the module (in the "arguments" form of a package using the
linux-module-build-system, use the key #:linux to specify it).
@end defvr
+@defvr {Scheme Variable} node-build-system
+This variable is exported by @code{(guix build-system node)}. It
+implements the build procedure used by @uref{http://nodejs.org,
+Node.js}, which implements an approximation of the @code{npm install}
+command, followed by an @code{npm test} command.
+
+Which Node.js package is used to interpret the @code{npm} commands can
+be specified with the @code{#:node} parameter which defaults to
+@code{node}.
+@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,