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| author | Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> | 2015-02-05 22:41:24 +0100 |
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| committer | Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> | 2015-02-08 19:21:58 +0100 |
| commit | a677c7267bdf5f2d2310d81334f1d2aaf2cff856 (patch) | |
| tree | e9fab4fad80f6143c4f0855bf86fa27d92b4a5d6 /doc | |
| parent | 027981d6d710ca1bb0f645820cf46d4b7bb4dbe1 (diff) | |
build: Add 'waf-build-system'.
* guix/build-system/waf.scm,
guix/build/waf-build-system.scm: New files.
* Makefile.am (MODULES): Add them.
* doc/guix.texi (Build Systems): Document waf-build-system.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 4e99254b19..9fa0bd8f84 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -1913,6 +1913,18 @@ Which Ruby package is used can be specified with the @code{#:ruby} parameter. @end defvr +@defvr {Scheme Variable} waf-build-system +This variable is exported by @code{(guix build-system waf)}. It +implements a build procedure around the @code{waf} script. The common +phases---@code{configure}, @code{build}, and @code{install}---are +implemented by passing their names as arguments to the @code{waf} +script. + +The @code{waf} script is executed by the Python interpreter. Which +Python package is used to run the script can be specified with the +@code{#:python} parameter. +@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, |