Hi Florian, "pelzflorian (Florian Pelz)" <pelzflor...@pelzflorian.de> skribis:
> The Guix manual contains the following description of gexp->file: > > -- Monadic Procedure: gexp->file NAME EXP [#:set-load-path? #t] > [#:module-path %load-path] [#:splice? #f] [#:guile > (default-guile)] Return a derivation that builds a file NAME > containing EXP. When SPLICE? is true, EXP is considered to be a > list of expressions that will be spliced in the resulting file. > > When SET-LOAD-PATH? is true, emit code in the resulting file to set > ‘%load-path’ and ‘%load-compiled-path’ to honor EXP’s imported > modules. Look up EXP’s modules in MODULE-PATH. > > The resulting file holds references to all the dependencies of EXP > or a subset thereof. > > I do not understand this last sentence. How can it be a subset? A > subset of what? Can this be explained more clearly or removed? It can be a subset of the references of EXP because, when a build completes, the daemon scan the output(s) to determine the set of residual references. That’s the difference between build-time and run-time dependencies. For instance, ‘sed’ depends on ‘gcc’ and ‘gcc:lib’ at build time, but its output depends only on ‘gcc:lib’. Does that make sense? Ludo’.
