diff options
| author | Richard Sent <richard@freakingpenguin.com> | 2024-06-02 15:44:27 -0400 |
|---|---|---|
| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2024-09-04 19:17:00 +0200 |
| commit | f3ea876895f19b7460c2d3647578905cc80e0cfe (patch) | |
| tree | 0369eca900fc119ea57b81ffe0a07a335e099dd5 /doc/guix.texi | |
| parent | 8da7f4a1103abc2abeef1ba149e6beb8b7966ab2 (diff) | |
| download | guix-f3ea876895f19b7460c2d3647578905cc80e0cfe.tar.gz guix-f3ea876895f19b7460c2d3647578905cc80e0cfe.zip | |
gexp: Add ‘assume-source-relative-file-name’.
* guix/gexp.scm (assume-source-relative-file-name): New macro.
(local-file): Use assume-source-relative-file-name to look up a non-literal
file relative to the current source directory.
* doc/guix.texi (G-expressions): Document it.
* tests/gexp.scm ("local-file, non-literal source relative file name"):
New test.
Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
Change-Id: I18573c8c7a6c87e8351b34412f9d26bb23b068b4
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/guix.texi')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 16c697586a..cb8efa1e50 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -12251,6 +12251,11 @@ Wrapping is done like this: (local-file (assume-valid-file-name alice-key-file-path)) @end lisp +@var{file} can be wrapped in the @code{assume-source-relative-file-name} +syntactic keyword. When this is done, the file name will be looked up +relative to the source file where it appears even when it is not a +string literal. + This is the declarative counterpart of the @code{interned-file} monadic procedure (@pxref{The Store Monad, @code{interned-file}}). @end deffn |