* gnu/packages/emacs.scm (emacs): Update to 27.1.
[source]: In snippet, use 'find-files' to find 'eshell/esh-groups.el'
if it exists, but gracefully handle its absence.
[arguments]: Add "--with-cairo" to configure-flags. Add 'restore-emacs-pdmp'
and 'make-compressed-files-writable' phases. Explicitly return #t from
'install-site-start' phase.
[inputs]: Add cairo, pango, harfbuzz, jansson, and gmp. Remove imagemagick.
(emacs-next): Remove variable.
(emacs-minimal, emacs-xwidgets): Use 'package/inherit'.
[arguments]: Remove 'restore-emacs-pdmp' phase.
(emacs-no-x): Use 'package/inherit'.
[arguments]: Remove "--with-cairo" from configure-flags. Remove
'restore-emacs-pdmp' phase.
[inputs]: Remove cairo, pango, and harfbuzz.
(emacs-no-x-toolkit): Use 'package/inherit'.
[arguments]: Remove 'restore-emacs-pdmp' phase. Remove superfluous
quasiquote+unquote-splicing pair.
(emacs-wide-int): Use 'package/inherit'.
(guile-emacs): Use 'package/inherit'.
[arguments]: Remove "--with-cairo" from configure-flags. Remove
'restore-emacs-pdmp' phase.
* gnu/packages/patches/emacs-ignore-empty-xim-styles.patch,
gnu/packages/patches/emacs-source-date-epoch.patch: Adapt to
apply cleanly to emacs-27.1.
* gnu/packages/patches/emacs-exec-path.patch: Replace with the previous
contents of 'emacs27-exec-path.patch', but remove the superfluous comment
about it being "like emacs-exec-path.patch, but for Emacs 27".
* gnu/packages/patches/emacs27-exec-path.patch: Delete file.
* gnu/local.mk (dist_patch_DATA): Remove 'emacs27-exec-path.patch'.
Suggested by Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>.
* gnu/packages/patches/emacs-source-date-epoch.patch: New patch.
* gnu-system.am (dist_patch_DATA): Add it.
* gnu/packages/emacs.scm (emacs)[source]: Use it.
Mark H Weaver
Alex Kost