From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
Cc: 6401@debbugs.gnu.org, tim@tenkan.org
Subject: bug#6401:
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:09:54 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ipmc9ggd.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5kmxbovz9a.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>
> From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
> Cc: tim@tenkan.org, 6401@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 12:32:49 -0500
>
> 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.)
The other important use case is running Emacs under a debugger invoked
through GUD. This actually runs a higher risk of having two different
Emacs versions: imagine that a newer Emacs has a grave bug that
doesn't allow it to be used to run a debugger.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-11-22 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-11 11:53 bug#6401: Failure in loading charset map: JISX0208 Sigve Berge Hofland
2011-05-24 16:30 ` bug#6401: Sigve Berge Hofland
2011-07-02 1:01 ` bug#6401: Glenn Morris
2011-11-21 2:33 ` bug#6401: Tim Daly Jr.
2011-11-21 23:31 ` bug#6401: Glenn Morris
2011-11-22 5:38 ` bug#6401: Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-22 7:49 ` bug#6401: Glenn Morris
2011-11-22 8:36 ` bug#6401: Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-22 17:29 ` bug#6401: Glenn Morris
2011-11-22 17:34 ` bug#6401: Tim Daly Jr.
2011-11-22 17:42 ` bug#6401: Glenn Morris
2011-11-22 22:15 ` bug#6401: Glenn Morris
2012-07-10 1:06 ` bug#6401: Failure in loading charset map: JISX0208 Glenn Morris
2011-11-22 18:08 ` bug#6401: Eli Zaretskii
2011-11-22 17:32 ` bug#6401: Glenn Morris
2011-11-22 18:09 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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