Emacs, distro with guix as package manager and guix.d

Emacs, distro with guix as package manager and guix.d

[Todor Kondić]

Hi,

The documentation claims that emacs installed by guix "knows" where the site packages, including the guix.d installed packages are found. But, this seems not to be the case, at least for one of my setups.

I have multiple profiles, one of them reserved for emacs. Among the packages in that profile, there is only a single one in site-lisp/guix.d . This is the *ess* package. This is also a single package that does not load properly.

The EMACSLOADPATH variable contains .../share/emacs/site-lisp and .../share/emacs/26.3/lisp paths, where ... is the profile path. I do not see any mention of guix.d there, but then, maybe it is not supposed to be there.

On another computer, also with hybrid distro, I have exactly the same profile setup, but ess works. The EMACSLOADPATH seems to have been built up in an analogous fashion, again no mention of guix.d.

Does anyone have any hints as to why ess might not get properly loaded, or what should I look for? The only difference I can currently think of is that in the former case (the setup that does not work), I start emacs from the command line, and in the latter as a deamon, so there might be something wrong with the environment.

Cheers,

Todor


PS Great talks last Sunday ;-). Sorry I did not say hello to more of you, but had to catch the train back home.

Re: Emacs, distro with guix as package manager and guix.d

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Hi Todor,

> The documentation claims that emacs installed by guix "knows" where
> the site packages, including the guix.d installed packages are
> found. But, this seems not to be the case, at least for one of my
> setups.

[…]

> The EMACSLOADPATH variable contains .../share/emacs/site-lisp and
> .../share/emacs/26.3/lisp paths, where ... is the profile path. I do
> not see any mention of guix.d there, but then, maybe it is not
> supposed to be there.

The guix.d directory has been removed.  What version of Guix are you using?

--
Ricardo

Re: Emacs, distro with guix as package manager and guix.d

[Jelle Licht]

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

>
> The guix.d directory has been removed.  What version of Guix are you using?

`guix build emacs-ess' still seems to result in a guix.d
directory. Perhaps this is because it uses a different build system?

- Jelle

Re: Emacs, distro with guix as package manager and guix.d

[Todor Kondić]

<rekado@elephly.net> wrote:

>
>
> Hi Todor,
>
> > The documentation claims that emacs installed by guix "knows" where
> > the site packages, including the guix.d installed packages are
> > found. But, this seems not to be the case, at least for one of my
> > setups.
>
> […]
>
> > The EMACSLOADPATH variable contains .../share/emacs/site-lisp and
> > .../share/emacs/26.3/lisp paths, where ... is the profile path. I do
> > not see any mention of guix.d there, but then, maybe it is not
> > supposed to be there.
>
> The guix.d directory has been removed. What version of Guix are you using?
>
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Ricardo

guix --version:

d441a6455051d70d7ff0d951c7e68318499b1739

Re: Emacs, distro with guix as package manager and guix.d

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>>
>> The guix.d directory has been removed.  What version of Guix are you using?
>
> `guix build emacs-ess' still seems to result in a guix.d
> directory. Perhaps this is because it uses a different build system?

Yes, this would need to be updated.

-- 
Ricardo

Re: Emacs, distro with guix as package manager and guix.d

[Pierre Neidhardt]

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If I recall correctly, a number of packages had to be updated after the
transition to the new build system.  I suppose that emacs-ess was left aside.

-- 
Pierre Neidhardt
https://ambrevar.xyz/

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Re: Emacs, distro with guix as package manager and guix.d

[Kyle Andrews]

emacs-ess build ESS version 17.11 which is significantly out-of-date as
well. The latest release is 18.10.

Pierre Neidhardt writes:

> If I recall correctly, a number of packages had to be updated after the
> transition to the new build system.  I suppose that emacs-ess was left aside.

Re: Emacs, distro with guix as package manager and guix.d

[Kyle Andrews]

On my guix (d441a6455051d70d7ff0d951c7e68318499b1739), a quick search
(guix\\.d[^a-z]) using the silver-searcher reveals several additional
packages and documentation makes references to these directories
including several emacs packages as well as:

cedille in gnu/packages/cedille
uim in gnu/packages/xorg
ghc-hindent in gnu/packages/haskell-xyz

Ricardo Wurmus writes:

> Jelle Licht <jlicht@fsfe.org> writes:
>
>> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>>
>>>
>>> The guix.d directory has been removed.  What version of Guix are you using?
>>
>> `guix build emacs-ess' still seems to result in a guix.d
>> directory. Perhaps this is because it uses a different build system?
>
> Yes, this would need to be updated.