bug#27686: emacs-ess: Not installed in "${output}/share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d"

[Alex Kost]

Adonay Felipe Nogueira (2017-07-13 09:20 -0300) wrote:

> It seems that Emacs ESS mode isn't installed in the same location as
> other packages are.
>
> Also note that emacs-ess doesn't use the Emacs build system. I don't
> know if this is indeed the issue (and if we can force it to use such
> build system), but I think this is an important note to make.

It's not a problem: we just need to install *.el files in
".../share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/ess" instead of
".../share/emacs/site-lisp/ess" as it is done by default.  The attached
patch should fix it.

A side note: this is one of the reasons why I don't like "guix.d"
sub-directory.  I think it is a useless extra level in the file
hierarchy.  If we used:

  .../share/emacs/site-lisp/<package>

instead of the current choice:

  .../share/emacs/site-lisp/guix.d/<package>

there would be no need to adjust 'emacs-ess', 'magit' and probably some
other packages to install *.el in "guix.d".  But this is for another
discussion :-), sorry:

  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2016-05/msg00241.html

0001-gnu-emacs-ess-Install-elisp-files-in-guix.d.patch
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