Re: Autogen in Emacs Shell

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 04:36:04AM +0200, Alexander Shukaev wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am considering to give up my current terminal (ConEmu) for Emacs Shell at
> least for some simple tasks [...]

> That's weird because immediately issuing
> 
> which automake
> 
> 
> says
> 
> /usr/bin/automake
> 
> 
> I use `bash' as Emacs Shell.  In ConEmu the same `autogen.sh' works fine.
> 
> Furthermore, when using `bsdtar' from Emacs Shell, I saw:
> 
> bsdtar: Failed to set default locale
> 
> 
> What could be the problem here?

As a hunch (but still, there are things this hunch can't explain), perhaps
ConEmu is running your bash as a "login shell", meaning that bash does some
environment settings it won't redo in a "normal" shell session, which assumes
it inherits those from its ancestor login shell.

An easy way to verify this hunch would be to tell your (Emacs) terminal
to use "/bin/bash --login" instead of just "/bin/bash" as thedefault shell
(please substitute /bin/bash by whatever the correct path is in your system).

Another thing you could do is to issue in both shells the built-in command
"set" (which shows you all the environment variable settings) and study
the differences. Watch out especially for PATH, LANG, LANGUAGE and all the
other locale stuff, like LC_*

hth
- -- tomás
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