From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Oleh Krehel Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Why "EMACS=24.4.91.2 (term:0.96)" in term-exec-1? Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 17:21:55 +0200 Message-ID: <87oanaecj0.fsf@gmail.com> References: <874mp2oq8b.fsf@gmail.com> <837ftyzgw7.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1427729247 15709 80.91.229.3 (30 Mar 2015 15:27:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 15:27:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 30 17:27:21 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1Ycbap-0000xm-Qu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 17:27:11 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34617 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ycbap-00043x-2Q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 11:27:11 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:48339) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ycbab-00043f-Mk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 11:26:58 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YcbaW-0001Xq-Os for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 11:26:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mail-wg0-x235.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c00::235]:34301) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YcbaW-0001Xi-GT; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 11:26:52 -0400 Original-Received: by wgbdm7 with SMTP id dm7so72959470wgb.1; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 08:26:51 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; bh=Z7WbV+qGJx242p/QvlYu1Xc3nFsAp8GI8LRqZsqNkYA=; b=CvVXrCtORjXevcsDK2TBz2kUiyygxUqnHWfroudSq6a01QdTr8SWbbX1NklDtz/akU zEqlUHW81TjesWFI4wK+GQlpV9s2bMtxX+sgBvp1XhgPilb+kjtgNPnPFuXMtU0e0iwZ 66VdgSv+qnDh5mgDztdHpqEMiu061mOVhlHCPOkfRblX+lwJMIeGmQWYKxdnIVRe8VI7 wKKDfQCgJosG/k646K3loUQE+/72rgLN9RCr53ShxoDxD9rxnr8sgRd9DGgPyQmhHFLk hd1UYYA5GeXraxP5OntwIYdWKwaEicnlLbCFyfJxVVKlfN6+dg/nwnYIMDSpoj8fbzoT MgfQ== X-Received: by 10.180.228.104 with SMTP id sh8mr23216530wic.61.1427729211880; Mon, 30 Mar 2015 08:26:51 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from firefly (dyn069045.nbw.tue.nl. [131.155.69.45]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id pv2sm16198948wjc.33.2015.03.30.08.26.50 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 30 Mar 2015 08:26:51 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <837ftyzgw7.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 30 Mar 2015 17:42:00 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.91 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c00::235 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:184551 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: >> From: Oleh Krehel >> Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2015 10:15:48 +0200 >> >> ;; We are going to get rid of the binding for EMACS, >> ;; probably in Emacs 23, because it breaks >> ;; `./configure' of some packages that expect it to >> ;; say where to find EMACS. >> (format "EMACS=%s (term:%s)" emacs-version term-protocol-version) >> >> So I have two questions: what was the reason for setting this variable, >> and can we remove it? > > I think these discussions will answer your first question: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-08/msg00255.html > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-10/msg00897.html Thanks, Eli. Is it time to get rid of the binding for EMACS, just like the comment says? My current solution is to use "emacs" instead of "EMACS" as a variable in all Makefiles. I'd prefer to use the caps.