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-rw-r--r--guix/gexp.scm7
-rw-r--r--tests/gexp.scm18
2 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/guix/gexp.scm b/guix/gexp.scm
index 260118affa..c9f6cbe99a 100644
--- a/guix/gexp.scm
+++ b/guix/gexp.scm
@@ -60,7 +60,12 @@
(define (write-gexp gexp port)
"Write GEXP on PORT."
(display "#<gexp " port)
- (write (apply (gexp-proc gexp) (gexp-references gexp)) port)
+
+ ;; Try to write the underlying sexp. Now, this trick doesn't work when
+ ;; doing things like (ungexp-splicing (gexp ())) because GEXP's procedure
+ ;; tries to use 'append' on that, which fails with wrong-type-arg.
+ (false-if-exception
+ (write (apply (gexp-proc gexp) (gexp-references gexp)) port))
(format port " ~a>"
(number->string (object-address gexp) 16)))
diff --git a/tests/gexp.scm b/tests/gexp.scm
index b0ff1019e6..6d4885e44e 100644
--- a/tests/gexp.scm
+++ b/tests/gexp.scm
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@
#:use-module (srfi srfi-64)
#:use-module (rnrs io ports)
#:use-module (ice-9 match)
+ #:use-module (ice-9 regex)
#:use-module (ice-9 popen))
;; Test the (guix gexp) module.
@@ -247,6 +248,23 @@
(return (and (zero? (close-pipe pipe))
(= (expt n 2) (string->number str)))))))
+(test-assert "printer"
+ (string-match "^#<gexp \\(string-append .*#<package coreutils.*\
+ \"/bin/uname\"\\) [[:xdigit:]]+>$"
+ (with-output-to-string
+ (lambda ()
+ (write
+ (gexp (string-append (ungexp coreutils)
+ "/bin/uname")))))))
+
+(test-assert "printer vs. ungexp-splicing"
+ (string-match "^#<gexp .* [[:xdigit:]]+>$"
+ (with-output-to-string
+ (lambda ()
+ ;; #~(begin #$@#~())
+ (write
+ (gexp (begin (ungexp-splicing (gexp ())))))))))
+
(test-equal "sugar"
'(gexp (foo (ungexp bar) (ungexp baz "out")
(ungexp (chbouib 42))