From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jan =?UTF-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#11959: 24.1.50; Warning: Lisp directory `C:/Emacs-24-2012-07-16/../site-lisp' does not exist. Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:05:04 +0200 Message-ID: <42C63609-6602-4632-B4C2-B98AAB2C4815@swipnet.se> References: <623F1AC1C2E540D09676869BBDA4B15A@us.oracle.com> <83hat69thh.fsf@gnu.org> <838veh9kxu.fsf@gnu.org> <836295hqgi.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1278) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1343628356 509 80.91.229.3 (30 Jul 2012 06:05:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 06:05:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Chong Yidong , 11959@debbugs.gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 30 08:05:55 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Svj75-0000kX-JV for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:05:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49655 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Svj74-0004M4-RR for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 02:05:54 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:60909) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Svj72-0004Lm-2U for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 02:05:52 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Svj70-0007DF-W5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 02:05:52 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:40254) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Svj70-0007D7-SX for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 02:05:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SvjDy-00059G-2A for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 02:13:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Jan =?UTF-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv?= Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 06:13:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 11959 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 11959-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B11959.134362874119744 (code B ref 11959); Mon, 30 Jul 2012 06:13:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 11959) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Jul 2012 06:12:21 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49800 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SvjDI-00058P-Pl for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 02:12:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailout.melmac.se ([62.20.26.67]:50518) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SvjDG-00058F-74 for 11959@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 02:12:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mail01.melmac.se (mail01.melmac.se [62.20.26.80]) by mailout.melmac.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3159905C for <11959@debbugs.gnu.org>; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:05:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (qmail 13078 invoked by uid 89); 30 Jul 2012 06:04:54 -0000 Original-Received: from h-46-59-42-18.na.cust.bahnhof.se (HELO coolsville.localdomain) (boel.djarv@bdtv.se@46.59.42.18) by mail01.melmac.se with ESMTPA; 30 Jul 2012 06:04:54 -0000 Original-Received: from [172.20.199.13] (zeplin [172.20.199.13]) by coolsville.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F03927FA06C; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:05:03 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: <836295hqgi.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1278) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:62607 Archived-At: 30 jul 2012 kl. 05:34 skrev Eli Zaretskii: >> From: Glenn Morris >> Cc: 11959@debbugs.gnu.org >> Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2012 19:50:28 -0400 >> >> Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> >>> It would be easy enough to make sure the site-lisp directories exist >>> before adding them to EMACSLOADPATH on Windows. >> >> That's probably the simplest solution. > > I will do that, if this is the consensus. Stefan, Chong, what say > you? > >> Or make the install create them, as the POSIX installation does. > > The problem happens when you run the uninstalled binary as well. > >> Actually, my recommendation would be to stop setting EMACSLOADPATH (and >> the other EMACS* environment variables...) on MS Windows, similar to >> what I recently did for the NS port. > > I don't see how this is possible. Emacs on Windows is built to be > relocatable, because many users install precompiled binaries in any > place they feel like. So Emacs on Windows must determine its > load-path at run time. By contrast, the mainline code relies on file > names hardwired into the executable at configure/build time, which is > a non-starter. What other devices do we have for forcing load-path to > have a specific value, except setting EMACSLOADPATH? I could, of > course, ifdef away the entire code that does that on lread.c, and put > there a Windows specific code instead, but is that really a better > alternative? The NS-port is also fully relocatable and determines load-path at runtime. Jan D.