From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kin Cho Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: environment variables for running emacs Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:09:55 -0700 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <7illerznrw.fsf@neoscale.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1096564226 10562 80.91.229.6 (30 Sep 2004 17:10:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 17:10:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 30 19:10:15 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CD4Rb-0004nC-00 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:10:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CD4Xz-0000KT-Su for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:16:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CD4Xx-0000Jz-Qx for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:16:49 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CD4Xx-0000Jj-7Y for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:16:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CD4Xx-0000JV-56 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:16:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [132.239.1.53] (helo=mailbox1.ucsd.edu) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CD4RU-0002Tg-83 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:10:08 -0400 Received-SPF: none (mailbox1.ucsd.edu: domain of mod-submit@uni-berlin.de does not designate permitted sender hosts) Original-Received: from Mail.FU-Berlin.DE (mail.fu-berlin.de [130.133.1.2]) by mailbox1.ucsd.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i8UH9xfR005773 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:10:00 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by Mail.FU-Berlin.DE (Exim 4.42) from curry.zedat.fu-berlin.de ([160.45.10.36]) for gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org with esmtp id <1CD4RK-000Hpy-Pm>; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:09:58 +0200 Original-Received: by Curry.ZEDAT.FU-Berlin.DE (Smail3.2.0.98) from news.uni-berlin.de with bsmtp id ; Thu, 30 Sep 2004 19:09:58 +0200 (MEST) Original-To: gnu-emacs-bug@moderators.isc.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.bug Original-Lines: 36 X-Orig-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de eYSOJXzxG9dA/zvuzwoRFQPlJGhKtQ6iNEbFa0m7RZ0UwYlDaU User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0YYNjIYdqwBCgbBKSGOf+SlRFuY= X-Spamscanner: mailbox1.ucsd.edu (v1.5 Aug 25 2004 09:28:35, -2.8/5.0 3.0.0-rc1) X-MailScanner: PASSED (v1.2.8 96921 i8UH9xfR005773 mailbox1.ucsd.edu) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list 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 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:9149 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:9149 Hi, I'm trying to run emacs on a machine without first installing emacs on that machine. The reason being the machine has a small and very slow flash memory disk, and there are many of these machines that I'd like to run emacs on them. Other than having a small and slow disk, these machines run normal Gnu/Linux with networking. So on machine foo I mounted bar:/ as /bar. Machine bar has a normal emacs installation. On machine foo I setenv as follows (from (info " (emacs) General Variables")): LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/bar/usr/lib:/bar/usr/X11R6/lib EMACSDATA=/bar/usr/share/emacs/21.2/etc/ EMACSLOADPATH=/bar/usr/share/emacs/21.2/site-lisp:/bar/usr/share/emacs/site-lisp Now on foo I run /bar/usr/local/bin/emacs and it gives the following error: Warning: arch-dependent data dir (/usr/local/libexec/emacs/21.3/i686-pc-linux-gnu/) does not exist. Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/21.3/site-lisp' does not exist. Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp' does not exist. Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/21.3/leim' does not exist. Warning: Lisp directory `/usr/local/share/emacs/21.3/lisp' does not exist. Cannot open load file: term/x-win So it appears that on a Gnu/Linux system, setting the variables EMACSDATA EMACSLOADPATH aren't sufficient to run emacs. If this is not a bug but a unsupported feature, please consider this post a feature request to a variable such as EMACSROOT whereby emacs can be started without a prior installation. -kin