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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at>
Cc: 47458@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#47458: Terrible UX upgrading Emacs in Guix
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2021 08:09:02 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87k0pfpqch.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0491bf7a885f44dbf62e2ca3b21fb5671daed5ec.camel@student.tugraz.at> (Leo Prikler's message of "Sun, 04 Apr 2021 09:49:31 +0200")

Hi Leo!

Leo Prikler <leo.prikler@student.tugraz.at> writes:

[...]

>> Shouldn't we wrap all the binaries to be on the safe side?  Things
>> such
>> as emacsclient probably ought to have EMACSLOADPATH set correctly,
>> no?
> The remaining binaries are
> - emacsclient, which inherits its EMACSLOADPATH from the server it
> connects to
> - ctags, ebrowse and etags, which are helper binaries, that don't seem
> to rely on EMACSLOADPATH at all.  (Or is there an indicator, that they
> do?)
> - .-real binaries, that should only be wrapped once.
> We could relax the regex to include the upper two, but I don't think
> it's necessary to do so.

OK, thanks for the explanation, it makes sense.

[...]

> I'd like to avoid pushing this to master just yet, because we also have
> changes in the Emacs build system to discuss and I don't want to cause
> an "Emacs world" rebuild twice in a row.  That said, I'm including this
> patch in wip-emacs with the plan to push to master or staging once
> everything there is resolved.

Sure!  Which changes do you have in mind?  Are they already on the
tracker for review?

Thank you,

Maxim




  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-06 12:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-26  6:11 [bug#43627] [PATCH core-updates]: Add a 'append-separator?' field to the <search-path-specification> record Maxim Cournoyer
2020-09-26  6:14 ` [bug#43627] [PATCH core-updates 1/3] guix: Add an append-separator? " Maxim Cournoyer
2020-09-26  6:14   ` [bug#43627] [PATCH core-updates 2/3] gnu: emacs: Use the new append-separator? option to define its search path Maxim Cournoyer
2020-09-26  6:14   ` [bug#43627] [PATCH core-updates 3/3] Revert "emacs-build-system: Ensure the core libraries appear last in the load path." Maxim Cournoyer
2020-09-27 19:01 ` [bug#43627] [PATCH core-updates]: Add a 'append-separator?' field to the <search-path-specification> record Ludovic Courtès
2020-10-03 21:22   ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-11-02 13:59     ` Ludovic Courtès
2020-11-08  5:49       ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-03-30 15:51 ` [bug#43627] [PATCH core-updates v2 1/2] guix: Add an append-separator? " Maxim Cournoyer
2021-03-30 15:51   ` [bug#43627] [PATCH core-updates v2 2/2] gnu: emacs: Use the new append-separator? option to define its search path Maxim Cournoyer
2021-04-10 20:42   ` [bug#43627] [PATCH core-updates v2 1/2] guix: Add an append-separator? field to the <search-path-specification> record Ludovic Courtès
2021-05-20 14:24     ` bug#43627: " Maxim Cournoyer
2021-03-30 18:41 ` [bug#43627] [PATCH] gnu: emacs: Wrap EMACSLOADPATH Leo Prikler
2021-04-04  4:35   ` bug#47458: Terrible UX upgrading Emacs in Guix Maxim Cournoyer
2021-04-04  7:49     ` Leo Prikler
2021-04-06 12:09       ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
2021-04-06 15:49         ` Leo Prikler
2021-04-07 19:46           ` Maxim Cournoyer
2021-05-20 13:24             ` Maxim Cournoyer
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-03-29  2:02 Mark H Weaver
2021-03-29  8:07 ` Leo Prikler
2021-03-29  8:24   ` Maxime Devos
2021-03-29  8:43     ` Leo Prikler
2021-03-29 15:55 ` [bug#45359] " Ludovic Courtès
2021-03-29 15:55 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-03-29 18:25   ` bug#45359: " Maxim Cournoyer
2020-12-22  3:28     ` [bug#45359] [PATCH]: Re-introduce Emacs packages specific installation prefix Maxim Cournoyer
2020-12-22  8:51       ` bug#45316: " Leo Prikler
2020-12-22 18:09         ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-12-22 19:10           ` Leo Prikler
2020-12-26  5:01             ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-12-26 10:56               ` Leo Prikler
2020-12-27  4:44                 ` Maxim Cournoyer
2020-12-27  8:46                   ` Leo Prikler
     [not found]       ` <handler.45359.D45359.161704236132600.notifdone@debbugs.gnu.org>
2021-03-29 18:45         ` [bug#45359] closed (Re: bug#47458: Terrible UX upgrading Emacs in Guix) Maxim Cournoyer
2021-03-29 18:48         ` bug#45359: [PATCH]: Re-introduce Emacs packages specific installation prefix Maxim Cournoyer
2021-03-30  8:04     ` [bug#45359] bug#47458: Terrible UX upgrading Emacs in Guix Ludovic Courtès

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