Re: no executable emacs binary in exec-directory

["Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull
<turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> wrote:
> 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.

I do not think that the emacs binary always should be on PATH. On w32
that is not usually the way to handle it.