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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index 9bd8b43582..57821c5617 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -2697,7 +2697,7 @@ one @i{via} its @code{Requires} field. Another example where @code{propagated-inputs} is useful is for languages that lack a facility to record the run-time search path akin to the -@code{RUNPATH} of ELF files; this includes Guile, Python, Perl, GHC, and +@code{RUNPATH} of ELF files; this includes Guile, Python, Perl, and more. To ensure that libraries written in those languages can find library code they depend on at run time, run-time dependencies must be listed in @code{propagated-inputs} rather than @code{inputs}. @@ -2967,6 +2967,63 @@ that should be run during the @code{build} phase. By default the @end defvr +@defvr {Scheme Variable} asdf-build-system/source +@defvrx {Scheme Variable} asdf-build-system/sbcl +@defvrx {Scheme Variable} asdf-build-system/ecl + +These variables, exported by @code{(guix build-system asdf)}, implement +build procedures for Common Lisp packages using +@url{https://common-lisp.net/project/asdf/, ``ASDF''}. ASDF is a system +definition facility for Common Lisp programs and libraries. + +The @code{asdf-build-system/source} system installs the packages in +source form, and can be loaded using any common lisp implementation, via +ASDF. The others, such as @code{asdf-build-system/sbcl}, install binary +systems in the format which a particular implementation understands. +These build systems can also be used to produce executable programs, or +lisp images which contain a set of packages pre-loaded. + +The build system uses naming conventions. For binary packages, the +package itself as well as its run-time dependencies should begin their +name with the lisp implementation, such as @code{sbcl-} for +@code{asdf-build-system/sbcl}. Beginning the input name with this +prefix will allow the build system to encode its location into the +resulting library, so that the input can be found at run-time. + +If dependencies are used only for tests, it is convenient to use a +different prefix in order to avoid having a run-time dependency on such +systems. For example, + +@example +(define-public sbcl-bordeaux-threads + (package + ... + (native-inputs `(("tests:cl-fiveam" ,sbcl-fiveam))) + ...)) +@end example + +Additionally, the corresponding source package should be labeled using +the same convention as python packages (see @ref{Python Modules}), using +the @code{cl-} prefix. + +For binary packages, each system should be defined as a Guix package. +If one package @code{origin} contains several systems, package variants +can be created in order to build all the systems. Source packages, +which use @code{asdf-build-system/source}, may contain several systems. + +In order to create executable programs and images, the build-side +procedures @code{build-program} and @code{build-image} can be used. +They should be called in a build phase after the @code{create-symlinks} +phase, so that the system which was just built can be used within the +resulting image. @code{build-program} requires a list of Common Lisp +expressions to be passed as the @code{#:entry-program} argument. + +If the system is not defined within its own @code{.asd} file of the same +name, then the @code{#:asd-file} parameter should be used to specify +which file the system is defined in. + +@end defvr + @defvr {Scheme Variable} cmake-build-system This variable is exported by @code{(guix build-system cmake)}. It implements the build procedure for packages using the |