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authorArun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>2017-05-15 20:08:57 +0530
committerArun Isaac <arunisaac@systemreboot.net>2017-05-28 19:30:05 +0530
commit3d90fa982b489cea2ccd2c0b14d63d45923e294a (patch)
treee6792a972ddda26b2424e45300584b3a08ffd22a /doc
parent2ac2b17251be51778963e6ced0b83e461d175d01 (diff)
build-system: Add 'font-build-system'.
* Makefile.am (MODULES): Add 'guix/build-system/font.scm' and 'guix/build/font-build-system.scm'. * guix/build-system/font.scm: New file. * guix/build/font-build-system.scm: New file. * doc/guix.texi (Build Systems): Add 'font-build-system'.
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@@ -3627,6 +3627,14 @@ package is installed in its own directory under
@file{share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d}.
@end defvr
+@defvr {Scheme Variable} font-build-system
+This variable is exported by @code{(guix build-system font)}. It
+implements an installation procedure for font packages where upstream
+provides pre-compiled TrueType, OpenType, etc. font files that merely
+need to be copied into place. It copies font files to standard
+locations in the output directory.
+@end defvr
+
Lastly, for packages that do not need anything as sophisticated, a
``trivial'' build system is provided. It is trivial in the sense that
it provides basically no support: it does not pull any implicit inputs,