Hi John, thanks.
> You should be able to use gexps, e.g. #$output (see > <https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/G_002dExpressions.html> > for more details). That is actually the preferred way now, though > there are still instances of assoc-ref. > I believe the commit in question is > <https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/guix.git/commit?id=7d873f194ca69d6096d28d7a224ab78e83e34fe1>. I've seen this commit before and saw that many of the build systems in it had the inputs and outputs build variables added, so that's why I asked. > Though perhaps you are getting at that you'd expect the older way to > still work? Perhaps qt-build purposefully left the older procedure > behind as it should have much fewer dependents (which may rely on the > old assoc-ref)? Yes, exactly, I wanted to know if this is purposefully left out, ie. for the thing you are saying - less dependants, or if it was sort of a mistake. So is the goal to port everything to gexps eventually, and to get rid of %outputs completely? Regards, Rutherther
