[Guix packaging] larsbrinkhoff/emacs-cl #42

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opened 2026-08-14 13:16:36 +00:00 by htayj · 2 comments

htayj commented

2026-08-14 13:16:36 +00:00

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Candidate

Upstream canonical URL: https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-cl
Source pinned commit/release when known: 19e950e73a336aad476b0d051819a682863a2eff (default-branch snapshot checked 2026-08-14)
Target concrete installed deliverable: Emacs Lisp Common Lisp implementation/editor extension
Primary category: programming-language
Tags: common-lisp, emacs
Primary language normalized: Elisp
Build system: emacs-build-system
SPDX expression: GPL-2.0-only
License status: confirmed-free
License evidence: The upstream LICENSE/COPYING was previously inspected at the pinned snapshot and identifies GPL-2.0-only.
Difficulty: hard — An old Emacs Lisp implementation needs byte-compilation and compatibility validation on supported Emacs.
Workflow state: research
Existing Guix coverage: Checked 2026-08-14: GNU Guix, Nonguix, Guix Science, Guix HPC, Guix Past, Guix 'R Us, and RDE; no equivalent package with the same upstream origin was found.

Scope and blockers

Install the Emacs package and its Common Lisp implementation files.

Acceptance checks

guix lint -L. <package-name> and guix build -L. <package-name> pass once a package definition exists.
Byte-compile and load the package in batch Emacs, then run its local tests.

Imported from GitHub issue/PR. Originally posted by htayj on 2026-08-14T13:16:36Z.

## Candidate - Upstream canonical URL: https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-cl - Source pinned commit/release when known: `19e950e73a336aad476b0d051819a682863a2eff` (default-branch snapshot checked 2026-08-14) - Target concrete installed deliverable: Emacs Lisp Common Lisp implementation/editor extension - Primary category: programming-language - Tags: common-lisp, emacs - Primary language normalized: Elisp - Build system: emacs-build-system - SPDX expression: GPL-2.0-only - License status: confirmed-free - License evidence: The upstream LICENSE/COPYING was previously inspected at the pinned snapshot and identifies GPL-2.0-only. - Difficulty: hard — An old Emacs Lisp implementation needs byte-compilation and compatibility validation on supported Emacs. - Workflow state: research - Existing Guix coverage: Checked 2026-08-14: GNU Guix, Nonguix, Guix Science, Guix HPC, Guix Past, Guix 'R Us, and RDE; no equivalent package with the same upstream origin was found. ## Scope and blockers Install the Emacs package and its Common Lisp implementation files. ## Acceptance checks - `guix lint -L. <package-name>` and `guix build -L. <package-name>` pass once a package definition exists. - Byte-compile and load the package in batch Emacs, then run its local tests. --- Imported from [GitHub issue/PR](https://github.com/htayj/guix-channel/issues/42). Originally posted by [htayj](https://github.com/htayj) on 2026-08-14T13:16:36Z.

htayj commented

2026-08-25 12:50:01 +00:00

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Goocastle recorded disposition: implementation-ready.

Created implementation ticket: #606.

Research evidence: the authoritative upstream is https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-cl at fixed commit 19e950e73a336aad476b0d051819a682863a2eff, the 2016-03-11 master tip (no release tags); use Guix version 0-19e950e. The upstream README.md describes Common Lisp implemented in Emacs Lisp, and the pinned tree has 36 implementation .el files under src/, load-cl.el as the loader, batch.el and interaction.el for batch/interactive use, src/tests.el plus src/tests.lisp as the local test harness, and no network or generated foreign-language dependency. COPYING is the complete GNU General Public License version 2 text, so the package license is GPL-2.0-only. The existing tay/packages/larsbrinkhoff-a-f.scm entry larsbrinkhoff-emacs-cl-source already records this exact codeload source, commit, GPL-2.0-only-equivalent Guix license:gpl2, and base32 hash 1jp5zwdjdgkxl7ghyzk3xxm7dsr9k8q3pcdp4446qdyx3ca233p7; reuse that immutable source rather than adding another fetch. This is source-buildable with Guix emacs-build-system, but the upstream src/Makefile only names obsolete emacs20/emacs21/XEmacs executables and must not be used as the Guix test/build driver. No equivalent package with the same upstream origin exists in the inspected local channel or the searched Guix package set: the channel has only the non-buildable larsbrinkhoff-emacs-cl-source snapshot, while Guix emacs-slime/emacs-sly are front ends for an external Common Lisp and clisp is a separate Common Lisp implementation. Delivery brief: add a new module tay/packages/emacs-cl.scm exporting emacs-cl, import guix build-system emacs, guix gexp, guix packages, guix licenses, and tay packages larsbrinkhoff-a-f, set version/source from larsbrinkhoff-emacs-cl-source, use emacs-build-system with #:lisp-directory "src", and declare no propagated or external Common Lisp inputs; emacs-minimal is the build-system byte-compilation input and the source itself supplies the runtime. Because the source directory has no root cl.el matching emacs-build-system’s package-description inference and has no autoload declarations, delete or bypass ensure-package-description, make-autoloads, and validate-compiled-autoloads phases; retain the normal install/build phases so all src/*.el files are installed and byte-compiled, with the default test-file exclusion keeping tests.el out of the runtime output. Add the standard leave-lisp-directory phase before install-license-files (or an equivalent explicit copy) so ../COPYING is installed with the output. Do not install src/emacs-cl unchanged: it hard-codes /home/lars/src/emacs-cl and is not a valid store runtime. The requested Emacs extension needs no command wrapper; load-cl.el must remain co-located with the installed implementation files because it prepends file-name-directory load-file-name and loads the fixed sibling list. If a batch CLI is later included, it must be a generated store-aware wrapper that invokes a declared Emacs runtime with the installed load-cl.el and batch.el, never the upstream script. Isolated smoke-proof plan for implementation: set an explicit emacs-build-system #:test-command that runs from src with emacs --batch -Q -L . -l load-cl.el -l tests.el -f test-cl, capture its summary, and fail unless PASS is nonzero and FAIL evaluation, FAIL compilation, and FAIL execution are all zero; then let the build-system byte-compile the installed .el files. In a fresh batch Emacs, add the built output’s site-lisp/cl-0-19e950e directory to -L, load load-cl.el once, and assert that the loader succeeds and the emacs-cl interactive function and emacs-cl-eval-interactively are bound; also verify the output contains the expected implementation .el files and COPYING while omitting tests.lisp and the broken launcher. Finally run the requested acceptance commands guix lint -L. emacs-cl and guix build -L. emacs-cl on the completed definition. No package proof is claimed by this research; the current result is implementation-ready because the canonical source, fixed revision, legal status, source-build path, package shape, runtime behavior, equivalent-package disposition, and an isolated compatibility smoke plan are all concrete.

Imported from GitHub comment. Originally posted by htayj on 2026-08-25T12:50:01Z.

Goocastle recorded disposition: implementation-ready. Created implementation ticket: #606. Research evidence: the authoritative upstream is https://github.com/larsbrinkhoff/emacs-cl at fixed commit 19e950e73a336aad476b0d051819a682863a2eff, the 2016-03-11 master tip (no release tags); use Guix version 0-19e950e. The upstream README.md describes Common Lisp implemented in Emacs Lisp, and the pinned tree has 36 implementation .el files under src/, load-cl.el as the loader, batch.el and interaction.el for batch/interactive use, src/tests.el plus src/tests.lisp as the local test harness, and no network or generated foreign-language dependency. COPYING is the complete GNU General Public License version 2 text, so the package license is GPL-2.0-only. The existing tay/packages/larsbrinkhoff-a-f.scm entry larsbrinkhoff-emacs-cl-source already records this exact codeload source, commit, GPL-2.0-only-equivalent Guix license:gpl2, and base32 hash 1jp5zwdjdgkxl7ghyzk3xxm7dsr9k8q3pcdp4446qdyx3ca233p7; reuse that immutable source rather than adding another fetch. This is source-buildable with Guix emacs-build-system, but the upstream src/Makefile only names obsolete emacs20/emacs21/XEmacs executables and must not be used as the Guix test/build driver. No equivalent package with the same upstream origin exists in the inspected local channel or the searched Guix package set: the channel has only the non-buildable larsbrinkhoff-emacs-cl-source snapshot, while Guix emacs-slime/emacs-sly are front ends for an external Common Lisp and clisp is a separate Common Lisp implementation. Delivery brief: add a new module tay/packages/emacs-cl.scm exporting emacs-cl, import guix build-system emacs, guix gexp, guix packages, guix licenses, and tay packages larsbrinkhoff-a-f, set version/source from larsbrinkhoff-emacs-cl-source, use emacs-build-system with #:lisp-directory "src", and declare no propagated or external Common Lisp inputs; emacs-minimal is the build-system byte-compilation input and the source itself supplies the runtime. Because the source directory has no root cl.el matching emacs-build-system’s package-description inference and has no autoload declarations, delete or bypass ensure-package-description, make-autoloads, and validate-compiled-autoloads phases; retain the normal install/build phases so all src/*.el files are installed and byte-compiled, with the default test-file exclusion keeping tests.el out of the runtime output. Add the standard leave-lisp-directory phase before install-license-files (or an equivalent explicit copy) so ../COPYING is installed with the output. Do not install src/emacs-cl unchanged: it hard-codes /home/lars/src/emacs-cl and is not a valid store runtime. The requested Emacs extension needs no command wrapper; load-cl.el must remain co-located with the installed implementation files because it prepends file-name-directory load-file-name and loads the fixed sibling list. If a batch CLI is later included, it must be a generated store-aware wrapper that invokes a declared Emacs runtime with the installed load-cl.el and batch.el, never the upstream script. Isolated smoke-proof plan for implementation: set an explicit emacs-build-system #:test-command that runs from src with emacs --batch -Q -L . -l load-cl.el -l tests.el -f test-cl, capture its summary, and fail unless PASS is nonzero and FAIL evaluation, FAIL compilation, and FAIL execution are all zero; then let the build-system byte-compile the installed .el files. In a fresh batch Emacs, add the built output’s site-lisp/cl-0-19e950e directory to -L, load load-cl.el once, and assert that the loader succeeds and the emacs-cl interactive function and emacs-cl-eval-interactively are bound; also verify the output contains the expected implementation .el files and COPYING while omitting tests.lisp and the broken launcher. Finally run the requested acceptance commands guix lint -L. emacs-cl and guix build -L. emacs-cl on the completed definition. No package proof is claimed by this research; the current result is implementation-ready because the canonical source, fixed revision, legal status, source-build path, package shape, runtime behavior, equivalent-package disposition, and an isolated compatibility smoke plan are all concrete. --- Imported from [GitHub comment](https://github.com/htayj/guix-channel/issues/42#issuecomment-5410618143). Originally posted by [htayj](https://github.com/htayj) on 2026-08-25T12:50:01Z.

tay referenced this issue

2026-08-25 21:29:03 +00:00

Implement researched Guix package outcome for #42: [Guix packaging] larsbrinkhoff/emacs-cl #606

tay commented

2026-09-30 00:31:33 +00:00

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Previously blocked Emacs30 compatibility is resolved by #606, signed/authenticated commit 145a1535a14643b4d65e50e0589085d7e41da2a6. See full180-pass upstream suite, reproducible build, offline lint, isolated evaluator/compiler/negative-error proof and real result PNG. No global Emacs compiler overrides were introduced.

Previously blocked Emacs30 compatibility is resolved by #606, signed/authenticated commit `145a1535a14643b4d65e50e0589085d7e41da2a6`. See full180-pass upstream suite, reproducible build, offline lint, isolated evaluator/compiler/negative-error proof and real result PNG. No global Emacs compiler overrides were introduced.

tay closed this issue

2026-09-30 00:31:33 +00:00