From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: msys2 build path problems + copy-paste english results in chinese characters Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2021 10:42:49 +0100 Message-ID: <8735nbibqe.fsf@telefonica.net> References: <83a6hks26v.fsf@gnu.org> <83pmqgqi6e.fsf@gnu.org> <87czmghqui.fsf@telefonica.net> <834k7rqxru.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="10222"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:yqDVZfP8lI8hUDrERCupFyJzJKU= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Dec 02 10:44:06 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1msidJ-0002SK-Cp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 10:44:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58508 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msidH-0003Q8-SJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 04:44:03 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:49664) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msicF-00027z-H9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 04:42:59 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:37758) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1msicD-0003S7-AG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 04:42:58 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1msicB-00010q-3I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Dec 2021 10:42:55 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:280730 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> >> Does the directory where you have gas.exe >> >> appear on the system-wide PATH? >> > >> > Nope; I haven't manually added any of msys paths to the system, I thought the >> > build would add some default paths to msys dirs. >> >> Try this in your .emacs : >> >> (let ((dir (file-name-directory (car command-line-args)))) >> (setenv "PATH" (concat (getenv "PATH") path-separator dir)) >> (setq exec-path (append exec-path (list dir)))) > > Changing PATH from within Emacs is not recommended, it will bite you > down the road when you least expect it. I'm using that since many years ago without problems. It makes possible to run all the other Mingw-w64 executables installed on the same directory as emacs.exe without changing the global PATH or using a script to start Emacs. If you know a better approach and/or wish to describe a failure mode for the above code...