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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2015-09-09 09:44:43 +0200 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2015-10-10 22:46:14 +0200 |
| commit | b751cde36b508690d5f893360f964d3098549131 (patch) | |
| tree | 2a0d68122bb43b245706388fb2e5e8f00063e7da /doc | |
| parent | 15a01c72209b2d43239fe7516a22e531b7fcb85f (diff) | |
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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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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index e0a6f2bddf..6334b37a7f 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -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 |