From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii 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 16:30:11 +0300 Message-ID: <83vch5fkbg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <623F1AC1C2E540D09676869BBDA4B15A@us.oracle.com> <83hat69thh.fsf@gnu.org> <838veh9kxu.fsf@gnu.org> <836295hqgi.fsf@gnu.org> <42C63609-6602-4632-B4C2-B98AAB2C4815@swipnet.se> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1343655069 18213 80.91.229.3 (30 Jul 2012 13:31:09 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:31:09 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@gnu.org, 11959@debbugs.gnu.org To: Jan =?UTF-8?Q?Dj=C3=A4rv?= Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 30 15:31:08 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 1Svq3w-0006Qs-LI for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 15:31:08 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47096 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Svq3v-0004bv-TY for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:31:07 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:51108) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Svq3l-0004JR-Jp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:31:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Svq3d-0003vZ-GU for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:30:57 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:40764) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Svq3d-0003uf-8u for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:30:49 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SvqAc-0000nJ-D5 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:38:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: debbugs-submit-bounces@debbugs.gnu.org Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:38:02 +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=B11959.13436554763042 (code B ref 11959); Mon, 30 Jul 2012 13:38:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 11959) by debbugs.gnu.org; 30 Jul 2012 13:37:56 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50310 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SvqAW-0000n1-Eb for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:37:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:61620) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1SvqAT-0000mr-F1 for 11959@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 09:37:54 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M7Z00B006SL7L00@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for 11959@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:29:58 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M7Z00A7V6TXHX80@a-mtaout22.012.net.il>; Mon, 30 Jul 2012 16:29:57 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <42C63609-6602-4632-B4C2-B98AAB2C4815@swipnet.se> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il 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:62622 Archived-At: > From: Jan Dj=E4rv > Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2012 08:05:04 +0200 > Cc: Glenn Morris , > Stefan Monnier , > Chong Yidong , > 11959@debbugs.gnu.org >=20 >=20 > >> Actually, my recommendation would be to stop setting EMACSLOADPA= TH (and > >> the other EMACS* environment variables...) on MS Windows, simila= r to > >> what I recently did for the NS port. > >=20 > > I don't see how this is possible. Emacs on Windows is built to b= e > > relocatable, because many users install precompiled binaries in a= ny > > 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, whic= h is > > a non-starter. What other devices do we have for forcing load-pa= th 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 bette= r > > alternative? >=20 > The NS-port is also fully relocatable and determines load-path at r= untime. Yeah, with "#ifdef HAVE_NS" around it. That's what I meant by "Windows specific code" above.