GNU bug report logs - #38309
Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes crash gnome-session

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Package: guix;

Reported by: "Alex Griffin" <a <at> ajgrf.com>

Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2019 02:27:01 UTC

Severity: serious

Done: clement <at> lassieur.org (Clément Lassieur)

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #76 received at 38309 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: Jelle Licht <jlicht <at> fsfe.org>
Cc: Leo Prikler <leo.prikler <at> student.tugraz.at>, 38309 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#38309: Recent $EMACSLOADPATH changes crash gnome-session
Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 14:28:19 +0900

Hello,

Jelle Licht <jlicht <at> fsfe.org> writes:

> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com> writes:
>
>> [...]
>> I've tested these changes with a Gnome VM and the EMACSLOADPATH is now
>> reduced to just the Emacs' lisp directory as well as the
>> share/emacs/site-lisp directory of any profile.  Thanks for the great
>> ideas :-).
>
> Would this still allow Emacs to load packages from Guix' environments as well?

Yes, and directly handled by Guix search path machinery, as in:

guix environment --pure --ad-hoc emacs emacs-magit -- emacs

--> Magit available in that Emacs instance spawned from that
environment, given that EMACSLOADPATH has been set correctly.

Maxim
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