From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
To: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu@gmail.com>
Cc: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>,
Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: no executable emacs binary in exec-directory
Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 22:46:01 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wsemzluu.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7ccd24b0811290526x2fcd8aeeiaf8d403648666489@mail.gmail.com>
Juanma Barranquero writes:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 14:23, Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-11-29 13:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-11-29 13:00 no executable emacs binary in exec-directory Lennart Borgman
2008-11-29 13:23 ` Sven Joachim
2008-11-29 13:26 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-29 13:46 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
2008-11-29 13:48 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-11-29 13:46 ` Sven Joachim
2008-11-29 14:51 ` Juanma Barranquero
2008-11-29 13:41 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-11-29 13:55 ` Lennart Borgman
2008-11-29 19:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-11-30 0:38 ` Lennart Borgman
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