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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index a6e14ea177..22e1bfa089 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2019 Ivan Petkov@* Copyright @copyright{} 2019 Jakob L. Kreuze@* Copyright @copyright{} 2019 Kyle Andrews@* Copyright @copyright{} 2019 Alex Griffin@* -Copyright @copyright{} 2019 Guillaume Le Vaillant@* +Copyright @copyright{} 2019, 2020 Guillaume Le Vaillant@* Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Leo Prikler@* Copyright @copyright{} 2019, 2020 Simon Tournier@* Copyright @copyright{} 2020 Wiktor Żelazny@* @@ -6751,30 +6751,27 @@ 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 @file{.asd} file of the same -name, then the @code{#:asd-file} parameter should be used to specify -which file the system is defined in. Furthermore, if the package -defines a system for its tests in a separate file, it will be loaded -before the tests are run if it is specified by the +They should be called in a build phase after the +@code{create-asdf-configuration} 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. + +By default, all the @file{.asd} files present in the sources are read to +find system definitions. The @code{#:asd-files} parameter can be used +to specify the list of @file{.asd} files to read. Furthermore, if the +package defines a system for its tests in a separate file, it will be +loaded before the tests are run if it is specified by the @code{#:test-asd-file} parameter. If it is not set, the files @code{<system>-tests.asd}, @code{<system>-test.asd}, @code{tests.asd}, and @code{test.asd} will be tried if they exist. If for some reason the package must be named in a different way than the -naming conventions suggest, the @code{#:asd-system-name} parameter can -be used to specify the name of the system. +naming conventions suggest, or if several systems must be compiled, the +@code{#:asd-systems} parameter can be used to specify the list of system +names. @end defvr |