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<sriharsha>zerwas, yes, I will post a patch soon

<zerwas>I'm excited :)

***gazoombo_ is now known as gazoombo

<sriharsha>I need to swap the 'check and 'install phases from %standard-phases of gnu-build-system and add a new phase between them. This is what I am doing: http://pastie.org/8679040

<sriharsha>but I keep getting: ice-9/psyntax.scm:1259:12: In procedure expand-expr:

<sriharsha>ice-9/psyntax.scm:1259:12: Syntax error:

<sriharsha>what is wrong with it?

<mark_weaver>well, I can see some problems and would write it quite differently, but first: does it say anything after "Syntax error:" ? it seems that you've omitted the most important part of the error message.

<mark_weaver>you mispelled 'outputs' in "#:key outpus"

<mark_weaver>I don't know that 'key=?' even exists.

<mark_weaver>the (find ...) expression could be more naturally written (assq 'check phases)

<mark_weaver>(apply (lambda (phases) ...) %standard-phases) could be more naturally written as (let ((phases %standard-phases)) ...)

<mark_weaver>but I'm not sure why to bind it to a different variable name, since you already have it as a variable.

<mark_weaver>anyway, I have to go afk for a while...

<sriharsha>mark_weaver, I followed your suggestions and this now seems to work: http://pastie.org/8679306

<sriharsha>however, when I try to use 'find' and 'match-lambda' it fails: http://pastie.org/8679391

<mark_weaver>oh, well, I can see some problems there.

<mark_weaver>again, I'm not sure 'key=?' even exists. but also, if a 'match' or 'match-lambda' doesn't match any of the clauses, then that's an error.

<mark_weaver>oh, well, I guess that wouldn't happen anyway.

<civodul>Hello Guix!

<zerwas>this pun never gets old. Hey :)

<civodul>glad you like it ;-)

<viric>civodul: can you help me with one french sentence?

<viric>"Porter haine à quelcu'un"

<viric>it's a dictionary definition.

<civodul>viric: it's syntactically invalid IMO

<civodul>it could mean "to hate someone"

<viric>aha, great

<viric>what is invalid, apart from ortography?

<civodul>well i've never seen that expression before, and it sounds weird

<civodul>"haine" is "hatred"

<viric> http://books.google.es/books?id=J8xFAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA377&lpg=PA377&dq=%22porter+haine%22&source=bl&ots=rk5lneBNID&sig=dVmLROmvvDZe6I248f75VHAH1h0&hl=ca&sa=X&ei=oHbpUtSFHqXG0QXAnYGIAw&ved=0CCoQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=%22porter%20haine%22&f=false

<viric>bring hatred to someone?

<civodul>yes, literally

<civodul>what does that mean? :-)

<civodul>ooh, indeed, thanks for the link

<civodul>that must be old French

<civodul>for instance it reads "bonneur" instead of "bonheur" ("happiness")

<viric>can't you understand it though?

<civodul>and it uses the big lower-case "s"

<viric>Aren't you french enough?

<civodul>not enough maybe ;-)

<viric>:)

<civodul>i can imagine what it means, but it doesn't feel natural

<viric>maybe 'porter' means 'have'?

<viric>have with oneself

<viric>as in 'wear glasses', "porter" glasses.

<civodul>yes, but maybe here it means "to bring", dunno

<viric>very well. Thank you!

<civodul>np :-)

<viric>civodul: as you wrote 'bonheur'... you made me think on one of the stupid names Spanish translated here on dictator time

<viric>El pic dels tres hereus => The mountain peak of the three inheritors.

<viric>They spanishized it to *The mountain peak of the very happy*.

<viric>(El pico de los muy felices). Crazy people

<civodul>"hereus" normally means "inheritors"?

<viric>sure

<viric>hereu: inheritor, heir.

<civodul>ah ok, so indeed, what they came up with is rather funky

<civodul>an easy way to hide things under the carpet, i guess

<viric>yes, occitania is full of that too :)

<civodul>yeah

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