GNU bug report logs - #42164
Combining file-append with gexps results in incomprehensible errors

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Jakub Kądziołka <kuba <at> kadziolka.net>

Date: Thu, 2 Jul 2020 12:01:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>

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From: Brian Cully <bjc <at> spork.org>
To: Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be>
Cc: 42164 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42164: Combining file-append with gexps results in incomprehensible errors
Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2022 16:40:08 -0400

Maxime Devos <maximedevos <at> telenet.be> writes:

> Proposed implementation:
>
> (define (output thing output)
>   (gexp-input package output))
>
> Seems like this thing already exists, it's just not well-known and not
> documented in the manual.

	Where is this in the code? I couldn’t find it myself (grepping
for these keywords turns up a lot of false positives). On the off chance
it might work, I did try ‘(file-append (output pkg "lib") "/path")’ and
was told that ‘output’ is an unbound variable.

-bjc
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