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-rw-r--r--guix/build/emacs-build-system.scm8
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/guix/build/emacs-build-system.scm b/guix/build/emacs-build-system.scm
index 2404dbddb4..1474c80dd3 100644
--- a/guix/build/emacs-build-system.scm
+++ b/guix/build/emacs-build-system.scm
@@ -92,8 +92,12 @@ store in '.el' files."
(el-dir (string-append out %install-suffix "/" elpa-name-ver))
(substitute-cmd (lambda ()
(substitute* (find-files "." "\\.el$")
- (("\"/bin/([^.].*)\"" _ cmd)
- (string-append "\"" (which cmd) "\""))))))
+ (("\"/bin/([^.].*)\"" _ cmd-name)
+ (let ((cmd (which cmd-name)))
+ (unless cmd
+ (error
+ "patch-el-files: unable to locate " cmd-name))
+ (string-append "\"" cmd "\"")))))))
(with-directory-excursion el-dir
;; Some old '.el' files (e.g., tex-buf.el in AUCTeX) are still encoded
;; with the "ISO-8859-1" locale.