From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Minor problem in "Apropos" - 21.2.93 Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:44:32 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <20021209141430.BE94317A90@server2.fastmail.fm> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1039644702 22629 80.91.224.249 (11 Dec 2002 22:11:42 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 22:11:42 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18MF4T-0005rW-00 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 23:11:13 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18MFFh-00010o-00 for ; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 23:22:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18MAut-0000ea-04 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:45:03 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18MAuX-0000du-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:44:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18MAuS-0000d4-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:44:41 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18MAuS-0000ct-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:44:36 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 18MAuO-00021F-00; Wed, 11 Dec 2002 12:44:32 -0500 Original-To: seagull@fastmail.fm In-reply-to: <20021209141430.BE94317A90@server2.fastmail.fm> (seagull@fastmail.fm) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:10072 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:10072 I looked in the the file "lisp/help.el". In place of using "exec-directory", we should be using "invocation-directory". Using exec-directory looks correct to me; the fns... file is supposed to be in that directory. If it is not present there for you, I think that is the bug. Can you investigate why it was not installed there? I am pretty sure invocation-directory is not correct, because that is nil for an installed Emacs. And for an uninstalled Emacs, it is the src directory, which is the wrong place for fns-... Content-Disposition: inline From: "Dhruva Krishnamurthy" To: "Emacs Beta" Date: Mon, 09 Dec 2002 19:44:30 +0530 X-Epoch: 1039443270 X-Sasl-enc: A24LMNXo0+mDtaMAYOJ04A Cc: "Richard Stallman" Subject: Fwd: Re: Minor problem in "Apropos" - 21.2.93 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-6.3 required=5.0 tests=FWD_MSG,QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,SIGNATURE_SHORT_DENSE, SPAM_PHRASE_00_01 version=2.41 X-Spam-Level: Hi, I looked in the the file "lisp/help.el". In place of using "exec-directory", we should be using "invocation-directory". This will ensure that the search for "fns-VERSION.el" file is made in the correct folder. Looking forward to seeing this minor fix. file:lisp/help.el line:616 Other lines (doc):602,607 with best regards, dhruva On Mon, 09 Dec 2002 19:10:40 +0530, "Dhruva Krishnamurthy" said: > Hello, > I am sorry for misleading you all. By sheer coincidence I had and > environmental variable "EMACSPATH" with other folders which I was adding > to the PATH variable. I realized, EMACSPATH is not to be used other than > just pointing to the path where emacs.exe resides. My sincere apologies > for those who have spent time trying to debug. > > with best regards, > dhruva > NOTE: > I feel we should use the ARGV[0] and do a strtok() to get the actual path > to store in "exec-directory" var instead of just taking it from the > EMACSPATH env variable. > > On Mon, 09 Dec 2002 18:50:24 +0530, "Dhruva Krishnamurthy" > said: > > Hi, > > I have built GNU Emacs 21.2.93 using MinGW 2.0 on W2K platform. When I > > do the following: > > M-x apropos "stipple" > > Select "set-face-stipple", command for extrra information/help, I get the > > following error message: > > Cannot open load file: d:/GNU/bin/fns-21.2.93.1.el > > > > I have installed GNU Emacs under: D:/GNU/emacs. I feel it should have > > looked into the folder "D:/GNU/emacs/bin" where the file > > "fns-21.2.93.1.el" is present. > > > > with regards, > > dhruva > > > > -- > > Dhruva Krishnamurthy > > Home: http://www.geocities.com/gnued/ > > > -- > Dhruva Krishnamurthy > Home: http://www.geocities.com/gnued/ -- Dhruva Krishnamurthy Home: http://www.geocities.com/gnued/