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Re: Calling functions in `make-flags'
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Sree Harsha Totakura |
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Re: Calling functions in `make-flags' |
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Sun, 23 Feb 2014 08:28:29 +0100 |
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On 02/23/2014 07:20 AM, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> As for why 'which' didn't work, I suspect it's because this code is
> evaluated very early in the build process, before the PATH variable has
> been set.
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> You can use 'which' in the code segments passed to #:phases because
> those are wrapped with 'lambda', which defines an anonymous procedure.
> The procedure returned by that lambda expression is not called until
> it's time to run the phase. At that point, PATH is set.
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> Does that make sense?
Yes, a lot! :-)
Thank you Mark.
Sree