Re: Emacs 21.3.50 grep.el/executable.el problems

["Ehud Karni" <ehud@unix.mvs.co.il>]

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On Sat, 14 Feb 2004 17:04:42 +0200, Ehud Karni <ehud@unix.mvs.co.il> wrote:
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> 2. progmodes/executable.el calls `find-if' which is defined in
>    cl-seq.el and requires the cl.el .

Actually `executable-command-find-posix-p' does not work well if
(car load-path) is a symbolic link name (and because of this it
failed for me on both GNU\Linux and Cygwin - both posix systems).


The following patch will fix this.

Ehud.


cd /lnx1/gnu/src/emacs/lisp/progmodes/
diff -c /lnx1/gnu/src/emacs/lisp/progmodes/executable.el.\~1.30.\~ /lnx1/gnu/src/emacs/lisp/progmodes/executable.el
*** /lnx1/gnu/src/emacs/lisp/progmodes/executable.el.~1.30.~	Wed Feb  4 14:33:38 2004
- --- /lnx1/gnu/src/emacs/lisp/progmodes/executable.el	Sun Feb 15 13:30:16 2004
***************
*** 146,156 ****
  If PROGRAM is non-nil, use that instead of \"find\"."
    ;;  Pick file to search from location we know
    (let* ((dir   (car load-path))
!          (file  (find-if
!                  (lambda (x)
!                    ;; Filter directories . and ..
!                    (not (string-match "^\\.\\.?$" x)))
!                  (directory-files dir))))
      (with-temp-buffer
        (call-process (or program "find")
                      nil
- --- 146,159 ----
  If PROGRAM is non-nil, use that instead of \"find\"."
    ;;  Pick file to search from location we know
!   (let* ((dir (car load-path))
!          files file)
!     (setq dir (or (file-symlink-p dir) dir))
!     (setq files (directory-files dir))
!     (while files
!        (setq file (car files))
!        (if (string-match "^\\.\\.?$" file)
!            (setq files (cdr files))
!            (setq files nil)))
      (with-temp-buffer
        (call-process (or program "find")
                      nil

Diff finished at Sun Feb 15 13:31:55


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