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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2015-09-09 09:44:43 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2015-10-10 22:46:14 +0200
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gexp: Add 'mixed-text-file'.
* guix/gexp.scm (mixed-text-file): New procedure. * tests/gexp.scm ("mixed-text-file"): New test. * doc/guix.texi (G-Expressions): Document it.
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@@ -3463,6 +3463,19 @@ will references @var{coreutils}, @var{grep}, and @var{sed}, thereby
preventing them from being garbage-collected during its lifetime.
@end deffn
+@deffn {Scheme Procedure} mixed-text-file @var{name} @var{text} @dots{}
+Return an object representing store file @var{name} containing
+@var{text}. @var{text} is a sequence of strings and file-like objects,
+as in:
+
+@example
+(mixed-text-file "profile"
+ "export PATH=" coreutils "/bin:" grep "/bin")
+@end example
+
+This is the declarative counterpart of @code{text-file*}.
+@end deffn
+
Of course, in addition to gexps embedded in ``host'' code, there are
also modules containing build tools. To make it clear that they are
meant to be used in the build stratum, these modules are kept in the