Re: Why are build systems separated into two modules?

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@gmail.com> skribis:

> Am Samstag, dem 17.09.2022 um 08:51 -0500 schrieb jgart:
>> Hi Guixers,
>> 
>> Why are build systems separated into two modules?
>> 
>> Why can't an entire build system be contained in a single module?
>> 
>> Just trying to understand the background design decisions that went
>> into that for my own knowledge and understanding.
> This way it's easier to separate what goes into the build (guix build
> my-build-system) and what doesn't (guix build-system my).  The closure
> of available modules at build time is declared in the #:arguments and
> gets default-initialized to the %my-build-system-modules.

On this topic, don’t miss Josselin’s guided your of the source tree!

  
https://10years.guix.gnu.org/video/guixy-guile-the-derivation-factory-a-tour-of-the-guix-source-tree/

Ludo’.