From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: no executable emacs binary in exec-directory Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:48:33 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87k5am3bu5.fsf@turtle.gmx.de> <87wsemzluu.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227966534 28746 80.91.229.12 (29 Nov 2008 13:48:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 13:48:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , Sven Joachim , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 29 14:49:56 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L6QCm-0005GX-6K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:49:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:53961 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L6QBb-0005d1-W9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:48:40 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L6QBY-0005cg-Cy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:48:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L6QBY-0005cQ-2E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:48:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53173 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L6QBX-0005cN-QF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:48:35 -0500 Original-Received: from yx-out-1718.google.com ([74.125.44.156]:46959) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L6QBX-0000NF-Gi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:48:35 -0500 Original-Received: by yx-out-1718.google.com with SMTP id 34so721475yxf.66 for ; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:48:33 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:to :subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=lo/i0PXnxz2uSXdEZX/O1mGYcn4TSw/siuSEDXQRvpQ=; b=THl00YmiagcgDhiVbakswMEXZwI8BqBAIHoMA33Jgf0y+GBVKU31i0bwBC2Xhqf1dO 6t+wamczO+JBdwCxPXZ3STa3fVGQwFNxxAgsYEMLCDM/8tt/nq19UCiwphdVr2xK0Rwx fsldsW4nZ+y0fVmT9re3+Fq9jMlT8J0vmEouE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=IJ1fenptoywHGNzk4zVa0hm/HVLX+1imRyRFKMfvsYs1FR22x6vA4krAf9kvcwx7BP VlR4/bLugGDEPi0kAakMEVE0UDITF7ETmDFp5gESq/RS0p839yseLvChCop7SCgNrGZZ n7Ap6tqe8XHagV3JYcbI6Ga7g1bEbIBBrVc6Q= Original-Received: by 10.150.219.16 with SMTP id r16mr1619347ybg.82.1227966513155; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:48:33 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.151.116.1 with HTTP; Sat, 29 Nov 2008 05:48:33 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <87wsemzluu.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Content-Disposition: inline X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:106301 Archived-At: On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Juanma Barranquero writes: > > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 14:23, Sven Joachim 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.