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| author | Maxime Devos <maximedevos@telenet.be> | 2021-06-28 19:24:44 +0200 |
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| committer | Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org> | 2021-06-30 13:53:00 +0200 |
| commit | d9e0ae07db5cb9f949c11f4ee77146a070c2618c (patch) | |
| tree | eb4222919d1f19cf852f92ecea58fe4704d9d2a4 /doc | |
| parent | ebf07a06f0a29eac6b5f115b10fc1eb7574f060c (diff) | |
guix: gexp: Define gexp->approximate-sexp.
It will be used in the 'optional-tests' linter.
* guix/gexp.scm (gexp->approximate-sexp): New procedure.
* tests/gexp.scm
("no references", "unquoted gexp", "unquoted gexp (native)")
("spliced gexp", "unspliced gexp, approximated")
("unquoted gexp, approximated"): Test it.
* doc/gexp.scm ("G-Expressions"): Document it.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Othacehe <othacehe@gnu.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 10 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index e0668b1f5f..e39e4eb7be 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -10046,6 +10046,16 @@ corresponding to @var{obj} for @var{system}, cross-compiling for has an associated gexp compiler, such as a @code{<package>}. @end deffn +@deffn {Procedure} gexp->approximate-sexp @var{gexp} +Sometimes, it may be useful to convert a G-exp into a S-exp. For +example, some linters (@pxref{Invoking guix lint}) peek into the build +phases of a package to detect potential problems. This conversion can +be achieved with this procedure. However, some information can be lost +in the process. More specifically, lowerable objects will be silently +replaced with some arbitrary object -- currently the list +@code{(*approximate*)}, but this may change. +@end deffn + @node Invoking guix repl @section Invoking @command{guix repl} |