From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6401: Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:32:49 -0500 Message-ID: <5kmxbovz9a.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> References: <3ECA75E7-611F-4D2A-B6B9-C0FEC96D1070@hofland.no> <822479C3-8B02-4BD7-AB56-C5D7DD31D9D6@tenkan.org> <2cmxboiol1.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1321983233 26847 80.91.229.12 (22 Nov 2011 17:33:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:33:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 6401@debbugs.gnu.org, tim@tenkan.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 22 18:33:49 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RSuE9-0004tN-5s for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:33:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40227 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSuE8-0007kw-Gb for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:33:48 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:59868) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSuE6-0007ka-6h for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:33:47 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSuE1-0000Ja-UR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:33:46 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:32991) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSuE1-0000JS-Sl for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:33:41 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RSuFK-0007Rl-54 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:35:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:35:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 6401 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 6401-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B6401.132198325628564 (code B ref 6401); Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:35:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 6401) by debbugs.gnu.org; 22 Nov 2011 17:34:16 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RSuEa-0007Qf-9p for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:34:16 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RSuEX-0007QV-I2 for 6401@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:34:14 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RSuDC-0002oW-8S; Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:32:50 -0500 X-Spook: CISU Merlin Bletchley Park Marxist basement PGP X-Ran: yEiqG$5dqfgPH6^M-|@UaO9zV)>#Z:+rY/_`=9Fav:E{T9|u{Pi}C\Le*X=NjPs?LM" (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Tue, 22 Nov 2011 03:36:53 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:35:02 -0500 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:54169 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Building Emacs is just one use case, even if we find a solution for > it. The problem is much broader: Emacs running as a child of another > Emacs gets EMACSDATA etc. variables that could well point to a wrong > place, because they were set by a different Emacs version. But I would imagine that building Emacs from inside Emacs accounts for the majority of cases where Emacs is run as a child of another Emacs. (I can't think of any other reason one would want to do it.)