From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nathan Trapuzzano Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Compile Mode and "host" Emacs Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 10:16:07 -0400 Message-ID: <87zjpstb6g.fsf@nbtrap.com> References: <874n80l0b3.fsf@nbtrap.com> <874n80w7cl.fsf@nbtrap.com> <87wqkwurtb.fsf@nbtrap.com> <87sivkurai.fsf@nbtrap.com> <87a9hsuqjk.fsf@nbtrap.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383056192 5574 80.91.229.3 (29 Oct 2013 14:16:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 14:16:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Sebastian Wiesner Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Oct 29 15:16:36 2013 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 1VbA5x-0000aq-9e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:16:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47426 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VbA5w-0004v5-PY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 10:16:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:43367) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VbA5n-0004tu-5M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 10:16:30 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VbA5g-0005j8-8l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 10:16:23 -0400 Original-Received: from oproxy19-pub.mail.unifiedlayer.com ([70.40.200.33]:48746) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VbA5f-0005iW-Vh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 10:16:16 -0400 Original-Received: (qmail 20042 invoked by uid 0); 29 Oct 2013 14:16:08 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO host393.hostmonster.com) (66.147.240.193) by oproxy19-pub.mail.unifiedlayer.com with SMTP; 29 Oct 2013 14:16:08 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=nbtrap.com; s=default; h=Content-Type:MIME-Version:Message-ID:In-Reply-To:Date:References:Subject:Cc:To:From; bh=F1FJTTaQa2kl5dFxQ6xrckLtSvNCZR79Rt5FlT5RgSI=; b=U409zdQUpdE3H3xiJI8HhcX8xtkeBTrqVHJW1PxhdsLv1QfoeEgre8VVIphY6l/tAhWjbpq4h0s+LANbLzo7RgBHwqqQHGTwrScvB3foOH0gnbeqKhgoddyGbSehG+w+; Original-Received: from [50.90.253.209] (port=54763 helo=Nathan-GNU) by host393.hostmonster.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:CAMELLIA128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VbA5Y-00046b-M5; Tue, 29 Oct 2013 08:16:08 -0600 In-Reply-To: (Sebastian Wiesner's message of "Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:07:28 +0100") User-Agent: Gnus/5.130007 (Ma Gnus v0.7) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Identified-User: {1585:host393.hostmonster.com:nbtrapco:nbtrap.com} {sentby:smtp auth 50.90.253.209 authed with nbtrap@nbtrap.com} X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 70.40.200.33 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:164632 Archived-At: Sebastian Wiesner writes: > If Compile Mode was now changed to set a variable, lets call it > "EMACS_PATH" for now, I myself would not need to do anything, and my > users would just need to add this variable to their "init.el" > temporarily, until 24.4 is released. Sorry, I don't follow. If asking your users to temporarily add something to their initialization files is an option, why not: (setenv "EMACS_EXE_PATH" (file-truename (concat (file-name-as-directory invocation-directory) invocation-name))) ?