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Ask HN: Does your project use Emacs lisp for build automation?
I'm building a new appliance, linking BusyBox with Tor on top of a minimal GNU/Linux operating system. I'd like to try something different for the automated build infrastructure with this one and Emacs Lisp has been calling me lately.
Do you have a project written in C that uses automated build scripts written in Elisp? Guile might might be a runner-up but I need to get up-to-speed quickly on the infrastructure needed, so I'm hoping for Elisp for familiarity's sake.
- zck 11y agoI think this would be awesome, but might be hard to make work. I don't know whether people run Elisp for purposes that aren't inside Emacs.
- christianbryant 11y agoYes, that's what I'm finding is the mindset out there. And hang it if I'm not all the more compelled to do it with Elisp :-) Guile seems to be the logical next step (I've seen some stuff with a shell script container, using Gawk and Guile for the heavy lifting).
- versteegen 11y agoNot a build script per se, but I use elisp for some scripts which I manually invoke occasionally for source code transformations like generating tables and lists of enums from C source. I ought to make my build script invoke the elisp automatically.