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5c444a0208e049b646d0dc4f1675f1d07cdbe507 — Ludovic Courtès 3 years ago 7c1b82f
doc: Link to the "Scheme Crash Course".

* doc/guix.texi (Defining Packages): Add @quotation block linking to "A
Scheme Crash Course".
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@xref{package Reference}, for a full description of possible fields.

@quotation Going further
@cindex Scheme programming language, getting started
Intimidated by the Scheme language or curious about it?  The Cookbook
has a short section to get started that recaps some of the things shown
above and explains the fundamentals.  @xref{A Scheme Crash Course,,,
guix-cookbook, GNU Guix Cookbook}, for more information.
@end quotation

Once a package definition is in place, the
package may actually be built using the @code{guix build} command-line
tool (@pxref{Invoking guix build}), troubleshooting any build failures