Re: native-comp and resetting of search paths

[Andrea Corallo]

Alex Bennée <alex.bennee@linaro.org> writes:

> Hi Andrea, Jorgen,
>
> I just thought I'd give you a heads up on a potential clash between
> native-comp's background compilation and elpy. In essence native-comp
> changes the value of elpy-rpc-pythonpath from:
>
>   "/home/alex/.emacs.d/elpa/elpy-20200527.2021/"
>
> To:
>
>   
> "/home/alex/.emacs.d/elpa/elpy-20200527.2021/eln-x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-93d8fa3f77c8fe62/"
>
> which is fine for the .elc -> .eln change but because elpy also uses
> this to find the python server in .emacs.d/elpa/elpy-20200527.2021/elpy/
> it gets very confused.
>
> What was the rationale behind this change? I can see it makes sense to
> tweak load-path but generally I would expect variables belonging to
> packages to remain untouched.
>
> Is this a recent change? it only seemed to break in the last week.

Hi Alex,

AFAIR nothing recently changed should cause a regression in this area.

If you cold look into how elpy-rpc-pythonpath is computed I guess should
be easy to undestand what is going on.

Thanks

  Andrea

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