Re: [PATCH] gnu: emacs: Install site-start.el in non-versioned directory.

[Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com>]

Ricardo Wurmus (2016-07-24 08:06 +0300) wrote:

> Alex Kost <alezost@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Ricardo tested Emacs 25 with this package definition:
>> <http://paste.lisp.org/display/320941> and noticed that it doesn't find
>> Emacs packages in ~/.guix-profile.
>>
>> This happens because "site-start.el" in the inherited package is placed
>> "/share/emacs/24.5/site-lisp" directory (the version part is wrong).  To
>> avod this, we can put "site-start.el" into a non-versioned site-lisp
>> directory.  The patch is attached.
>
> Thank you, Alex.
>
> As far as I understand, the generated “site-start.el” file is
> version-agnostic, so I think this is the right approach.

Yes, the code to find guix packages doesn't care about Emacs version.

> (I haven’t yet found the time to actually test your patch with my Emacs
> 25 package.)

I tested it :-)  So I'm going to commit it soon.

-- 
Alex