The first log in *Message* before this patch:
Loading /nix/store/bikm18vy6v07hmrvrll501i68440w9iw-emacs-29.1-rc1/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start.el (source)...done
and after this patch:
Loading /nix/store/bikm18vy6v07hmrvrll501i68440w9iw-emacs-29.1-rc1/share/emacs/site-lisp/site-start (native compiled elisp)...done
I see no reason to symlink this dir.
Doing so may shadow unwanted libraries since the site-start.el of
Emacs adds paths under NIX_PROFILES to load-path.
It is added in [1] to fix "building emacs". However, I have no issue
in building and using Emacs after removing it.
[1]: https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/89351
"$out/share/emacs/site-lisp" is added to load-path in wrapper.sh[1]
using EMACSLOADPATH and "$out/share/emacs/native-lisp/" is added to
native-comp-eln-load-path in wrapper.sh[2] using
EMACSNATIVELOADPATH. There is no point to add them again here.
Additionally, the trailing "/" in "$out/share/emacs/native-lisp/"
causes duplicate entries in native-comp-eln-load-path:
("/nix/store/hash1-emacs-packages-deps/share/emacs/native-lisp/" ; [3]
"/home/user/.emacs.d/eln-cache/"
"/nix/store/hash1-emacs-packages-deps/share/emacs/native-lisp" ; [2]
"/nix/store/hash2-emacs-29.1-rc1/lib/emacs/29.1/native-lisp/")
load-path does not change with this patch applied.
[1]: 1476c13422/pkgs/build-support/emacs/wrapper.sh (L47)
[2]: 1476c13422/pkgs/build-support/emacs/wrapper.sh (L50)
[3]: 1476c13422/pkgs/build-support/emacs/wrapper.nix (L166)
The Nix-driven bootstrap of gcc resulted in some changes to the
structure of the `libgccjit` outpaths, and also added an additional
output (`libgcc`) to `gcc`.
This commit makes the corresponding changes in the `emacs`
derivation in order to not break emacs.
Emacs is the only user of `libgccjit` in nixpkgs at the moment.
This commit adds basic support for tree-sitter in the emacs build,
such that (if the user opts into tree-sitter support), tree-sitter
will be enabled and binary library files for tree-sitter can be
included in the `lib` directory of packages passed to
`emacsWithPackages`. The libraries will be aggregated and included in
treesit-extra-load-path.
The previous pattern for this in the community was to add tree-sitter
libaries by patching emacs's `RUNPATH` with `patchelf` in a post-fixup
phase. However, this has the substantial drawback that two different
emacs installations with different lists of available tree-sitter
libraries must be entirely separate builds. By supplying the
tree-sitter libraries in the wrapping layer of `emacsWithpackages`, it
becomes possible to share a single, more-cacheable "core emacs".
This support defaults to "on" only in emacs 29 and up, since previous
versions do not support tree-sitter out of the box.
This commits changes the Emacs wrapper, in order to preload all autoload
definitions when built with additional packages. The list of all
definitions is generated at build-time. Packages do not need to
be (require)d for them to work.
Before this change, a code like
```sh
nix-shell -I "nixpkgs=$PWD" -p "emacs.pkgs.withPackages(e:[e.magit])" \
--run "emacs -Q -nw -f magit"
```
will fail with the message `Symbol’s function definition is void: magit`
After the change, the same code above will open Emacs with magit
enabled.
A slightly longer startup time of ~10ms was detected in local, informal
experiments.
More information on autoloading:
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/eintr/Autoload.html
Since the included package set is determined at build time we can also
generate the `subdirs.el` file at build time. This improves startup
time somewhat since we don't have to traverse the directory to add to
`load-path`.
For example,
``` sh-session
$ bench './emacs-old -Q --batch --kill' './emacs-new -Q --batch --kill'
benchmarking bench/./emacs-old -Q --batch --kill
time 72.77 ms (71.66 ms .. 73.65 ms)
1.000 R² (0.999 R² .. 1.000 R²)
mean 72.49 ms (72.06 ms .. 72.92 ms)
std dev 746.5 μs (582.4 μs .. 1.008 ms)
benchmarking bench/./emacs-new -Q --batch --kill
time 40.56 ms (40.24 ms .. 40.86 ms)
1.000 R² (0.999 R² .. 1.000 R²)
mean 40.30 ms (40.12 ms .. 40.51 ms)
std dev 401.9 μs (311.1 μs .. 555.8 μs)
```
The change does not actually affect the content of `load-path`:
``` sh-session
$ diff -s <(./emacs-old --batch --eval '(prin1 load-path)' | sed -E 's!/nix/store/[[:alnum:]]{32}-!!g') \
<(./emacs-new --batch --eval '(prin1 load-path)' | sed -E 's!/nix/store/[[:alnum:]]{32}-!!g')
Files /dev/fd/63 and /dev/fd/62 are identical
```
So in principle the only observable effect should be the improved
startup time.
I think this is due an update. I've chosen to update to the latest
version that has been merged into Melpa.
Unfortunately we now need to hack around it trying to run VCS
commands.
My Emacs configuration with thirty-something leaf packages seems fine
after the rebuild.
This change allows ELPA packages to have their src attribute updated
by overrideAttrs. Without this change the installPhase references the
original src attribute and overriding is not possible.
This change makes the wrapper script avoid displaying echo area messages
during startup. This helps prevent split second UI glitches early in the
startup process. The messages itself will still be logged and therefore
will not hamper inspection for debugging purposes.
This was already fixed on non-Darwin, but the fix missed that it was
also reintroduced for the Darwin code path at the same time.
Fixes: dd5d2482c9 ("emacs: Fix accidental double wrapping")
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.
