Opened 17 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

Last modified 15 years ago

#12115 closed defect (fixed)

BUG: emacs-app can't see code installed by other elisp packages

Reported by: cmconnelly (Claire Connelly) Owned by: cssdev
Priority: Normal Milestone:
Component: ports Version:
Keywords: Cc:
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Description

The new emacs-app package installs itself in /Applications/MacPorts/Emacs.app, whereas previous Carbon Emacs installs (such as emacs-devel +carbon) split the Mac OS X application piece off from various support files. Emacs-app doesn't look at the /opt/local/share/emacs directory for other elisp code, so packages such as auctex do not work with emacs-app.

The simple fix appears to be to modify epaths.h at build time to include the /opt/local paths. Alternatively, I would be fine with going back to the way the Carbon Emacs.app was installed in previous Emacs packages.

(Note that it is also possible to modify your load-path in your .emacs file or your EMACSLOADPATH environment variable, either of which works as a temporary workaround. But packaged software should work with other packaged software, so one of the other solutions is needed for a real fix.)

Attachments (2)

site-start.el (69 bytes) - added by cssdev 16 years ago.
site startup will append the prefix to the load path
patch-Portfile.diff (778 bytes) - added by cssdev 16 years ago.
Copy the site-start into the application bundle, then patch it to point toward the ${prefix}

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Change History (9)

comment:1 Changed 17 years ago by cssdev

Owner: changed from macports-dev@… to css@…
Status: newassigned
Summary: emacs-app can't see code installed by other elisp packagesBUG: emacs-app can't see code installed by other elisp packages

The current build simply wraps the upstream author's custom script. Ideally that script shouldn't be needed, but that's not the case right now. Given those circumstances, anything that modifies the build might be problematic. The packaged application should perhaps default to load other lisp packages from ${prefix}. I'll check into appending it to the autoload path.

comment:2 Changed 17 years ago by nox@…

Milestone: Port Bugs
Priority: ExpectedNormal
Version: 1.4.40

comment:3 Changed 17 years ago by cssdev

The latest emacs-app supports a shared-lisp directory. Once I get it built and submitted (see #12718), check if that solves the issue.

comment:4 Changed 17 years ago by cssdev

The 0.9rc2 shared-lisp support makes quite a mess, as it scatters files outside the destroot during the build phase.

comment:5 Changed 16 years ago by cssdev

The emacs-app sitelisp could just contain:

(setq load-path (cons "/opt/local/share/emacs/site-lisp" load-path))

Changed 16 years ago by cssdev

Attachment: site-start.el added

site startup will append the prefix to the load path

Changed 16 years ago by cssdev

Attachment: patch-Portfile.diff added

Copy the site-start into the application bundle, then patch it to point toward the ${prefix}

comment:6 Changed 16 years ago by cssdev

Resolution: fixed
Status: assignedclosed

Committed to r34411

comment:7 Changed 15 years ago by (none)

Milestone: Port Bugs

Milestone Port Bugs deleted

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