Mark H Weaver <m...@netris.org> skribis: > Alex Kost <alez...@gmail.com> writes: > >> Ricardo Wurmus (2015-06-14 19:32 +0300) wrote: >> >> [...] >>> + (build-system gnu-build-system) >>> + (arguments >>> + `(#:make-flags (list (string-append "prefix=" (assoc-ref %outputs >>> "out"))) >> >> I think it is clearer to use just '%output': >> >> `(#:make-flags (list (string-append "prefix=" %output))) > > I've been wondering about this as well. It seems that Ludovic often > (usually?) writes (assoc-ref %outputs "out"), and I wonder why. One > possible reason is that it makes it obvious how to get the filename of > other outputs.
Right, I usually avoid %output (singular) because it’s a special case of %outputs, so I prefer using %outputs. Ludo’.
