From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: no executable emacs binary in exec-directory Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:46:01 +0900 Message-ID: <87wsemzluu.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87k5am3bu5.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227966211 27534 80.91.229.12 (29 Nov 2008 13:43:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:43:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Lennart Borgman , Sven Joachim , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Juanma Barranquero" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 29 14:44:34 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L6Q7a-0003pM-L0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:44:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:52437 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L6Q6Q-0003lr-Pn for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:43:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L6Q6L-0003lN-6k for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:43:13 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L6Q6J-0003kv-NQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:43:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38236 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L6Q6J-0003ks-EU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:43:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:48073) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L6Q6J-00081D-4h for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:43:11 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BDC5820E; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:43:02 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 0A2451A3020; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:46:02 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" 83e35df20028+ XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:106299 Archived-At: Juanma Barranquero writes: > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 14:23, Sven Joachim wrote: > > Actually, on GNU/Linux [emacs found in exec-directory should > > never be the case. > > Not even when you build in place? exec-directory is where emacs finds its bundled copies of utilities like movemail and etags. When running-in-place, that's lib-src. So, no. The emacs binary should be on $PATH, not in exec-directory.