Re: emacs package

[Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org>]

On Mon, Sep 15, 2014 at 9:55 AM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:
> Federico Beffa <beffa@ieee.org> skribis:
>
>> I've installed guix 0.7 and its emacs package (and updated with "guix
>> pull" and "guix package -u"). When I start emacs I get the following
>> message:
>>
>> Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module"
>> GLib-GIO-Message: Using the 'memory' GSettings backend.  Your settings
>> will not be saved or shared with other applications.
>
> It looks like a mere warning, not a fatal error, right?
>

Correct, it is not a fatal error.

> FWIW I don’t see it on the whole Guix system here.
>
>> I'm on Debian 7.6 with the packages libcanberra-gtk-module and
>> libcanberra-gtk3-module. I've noticed that guix provides a libcanberra
>> package. Should I install that one as well? If yes, shouldn't the
>> emacs package install it automatically? Is it possible to make emacs
>> find the system installed libcanberra library?
>
> Using the host distro’s libcanberra would likely fail in unexpected
> ways.
>
> Perhaps the solution would be to add libcanberra as an input to the
> ‘emacs’ package, in emacs.scm.  Would you like to try that?
>

I will try out.

Regards,
Fede