If I'm running an Emacs executable from emacsWithPackages as my main
programming environment, and I'm hacking on Emacs, or the Emacs
packaging in Nixpkgs, or whatever, I don't want the Emacs packages
from the wrapper to show up in the load path of that child Emacs. It
results in differing behaviour depending on whether the child Emacs is
run from Emacs or from, for example, an external terminal emulator,
which is very surprising.
To avoid this, pass another environment variable containing the
wrapper site-lisp path, and use that value to remove the corresponding
entry in EMACSLOADPATH, so it won't be propagated to child Emacsen.
An empty entry in EMACSLOADPATH gets filled with the default value.
This is presumably why the wrapper inserted a colon after the entry it
added for the dependencies. But this naive approach wasn't always
correct.
For example, if the user ran emacs with EMACSLOADPATH=foo, the wrapper
would insert the default value (by adding the trailing `:') even
though the user was trying to expressly opt out of it.
To do this correctly, here I've replaced makeWrapper with a bespoke
script that will actually parse the EMACSLOADPATH provided in the
environment (if given), and insert the wrapper's load path just before
the default value. If EMACSLOADPATH is given but contains no default
value, we respect that and don't add the wrapped dependencies at all.
If no EMACSLOADPATH is given, we insert the wrapped dependencies
before the default value, just like before. In this way, the wrapped
Emacs should now behave as if the wrapped dependencies were part of
Emacs's default load-path value.
Previously, meta wasn't being passed through at all, because it's
removed from args without being used anywhere. This made it so that
rcirc-menu wasn't being marked as broken even though it was supposed
to be.
This patch copies the meta handling from melpaBuild, including the
default home page (adapted for ELPA).
* Use pythonPackages instead of python2Packages
* Add vncdo to top-level/python-packages so the library can be used by
other Python programs
* Use toPythonApplication for vnc in top-level/all-packages
* run tests if using Python 3+
* move expression to development/python-modules
siteVersionDir isn't a full path, it's just the name of the version
directory entry in $out/share/emacs, e.g. "27.1", so since
d1b0eef9b5 ("emacs: Don't use interpolation for version"), we've been
trying to remove a non-existent directory. This would have been
caught if we hadn't been giving -f to rm unnecessarily, because -f
suppresses errors. As well as fixing the path, I've removed the -f
from rm. Doing this to the line above as well revealed that rm-ing
$out/var was no longer necessary, since nothing has been put there
since ac23a7c459 ("emacs: 25.3 → 26.1") -- it would now only be
created if we set the --with-gameuser configure option, which we
don't.
