From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Building emacs 22.3 with djgpp 2.04 beta/Windows XP SP3 MCE 2005
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:13:06 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ubpsrr6m5.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <u3ae7f24z.fsf@earthlink.net>
> From: Allan <mu8ja0i@earthlink.net>
> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 23:53:48 -0600
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:51:03 +0200
> >> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> >>
> >> Does it help to define the environment variable LOGNAME whose value is
> >> the same as the Windows user name, before starting Emacs?
> >
> > Sorry, that was wrong. (It's been a while since I researched this
> > problem, so I forgot the details.) You need to make sure both USER
> > and USERNAME environment variables are set to the same value. Windows
> > sets USERNAME, so if you want to keep that, make sure USER is set to
> > the same value. If you don't want to set USER globally, you can do it
> > in the [emacs] section of your djgpp.env file.
> >
> >> Setting LOGNAME in the environment should solve the problem in a more
> >> consistent and predictable way.
> >
> > Again, I should have said "setting USER".
> >
> >
> I set the environment variables `USER' and `USERNAME' and it works now;
> I can save the _emacs file. Since I have .emacs also it is not hard to
> tell which one is for djgpp ("pc" window-system). I already knew about
> setting `USER' for the Windows version.
> Thanks for all the help.
I added a description of this problem and its solution to etc/PROBLEMS
for the next release.
Thanks for helping me find and diagnose this.
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2008-12-23 4:12 ` Building emacs 22.3 with djgpp 2.04 beta/Windows XP SP3 MCE 2005 Eli Zaretskii
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2009-01-04 16:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2009-01-10 14:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2009-02-21 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
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