Re: Difference between guix/build and guix/build-system

[Vasilii Smirnov]

On 5/14/24 12:24, pelzflorian (Florian Pelz) wrote:
> Hello Vasilii.  In addition to Hartmut’s recommendation to imitate,
> there also is a manual section; run
>
> info "(guix)Source Tree Structure"
>
> or visit
>
> https://guix.gnu.org/manual/devel/en/html_node/Source-Tree-Structure.html
>
> explaining what guix/build/…-build-system are:
>
>   (guix build gnu-build-system)
>   (guix build cmake-build-system)
>   (guix build pyproject-build-system)
>
>   Implementation of build systems, and in particular definition of their build 
> phases (see Build Phases).
>
> Regards,
> Florian

Oh, nice, I completely missed that page. Thanks! Although it would be 
nice if it went into more detail... Like, I see that both "build" and 
"build-system" parts define the "${name}-build" function (e.g. 
cmake-build). But the definitions are different.

The way I interpret these docs is that everything in the "build" part is 
solely for use from inside of gexps? And the "build-system" part is for 
use by the host code, that embeds these gexps. That would explain 
duplicate function names then...