Re: Blog: Guix packaging tutorial

[Ludovic Courtès]

Pierre Neidhardt <address@hidden> skribis:

>> ‘%build-inputs’ etc. are global variables of package derivation build
>> scripts; see ‘build-expression->derivation’ in (guix derivations).
>>
>> To view the code of one of these scripts, open the file returned by:
>>
>>   $ guix gc --references $(guix build -d coreutils) | grep builder
>>   /gnu/store/v02xky6f5rvjywd7ficzi5pyibbmk6cq-coreutils-8.29-guile-builder
>
> Nice, I had never looked into the builders before.  Good to know :)
>
> Maybe we keep the concept of derivations out of this tutorial for now.  So I
> think I'll explain this as "variables global to the package definition".  
> Sounds
> alright?

Or global variables in the build stage, to be more accurate.  :-)

It’s really a fine point though and shouldn’t block the whole tutorial!

Thanks,
Ludo’.