Re: Compiling Emacs from source for hacking on it

[Akib Azmain Turja]

Philip Kaludercic <philipk@posteo.net> writes:

> Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org> writes:
>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>>>> From: Akib Azmain Turja <akib@disroot.org>
>>>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>>> Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 22:22:31 +0600
>>>> 
>>>> > If using "-Q" doesn't help, perhaps this is some problem with building
>>>> > in a separate directory, in which case you could rebuild in-place and
>>>> > try again.
>>>> 
>>>> Yes, adding -Q works.  But why it can't read my init file even when the
>>>> whole file is commented?  Or is it expected?
>>>
>>> If using -Q solves the problem, look for the reason in your init files
>>> or site-init files.  Also, maybe you have some installed packages that
>>> get activated at startup?
>>
>> Ahh, I didn't thought about that.  Guix and package is loading autoloads
>> which might cause it.  But interestingly, the "with-memoization is
>> undefined" problem doesn't occur when I call temacs.
>
> I also had issues with Guix, so I start Emacs using a little script I
> have in ~/.local/bin with these contents
>
> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
> #!/bin/sh
> exec EMACSLOADPATH="" ~/Source/emacs/src/emacs "$@"
> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>
> And everything works just fine.

Yeah, I must like that, especially the "exec", about which I always
forget.

Is there any way to use the Guix packages?  I guess I need to do some
magic (like modifing load-path maybe) from my init file.

BTW, is this problem unique to Guix or exists in any other distribution?

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Akib Azmain Turja

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