From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
To: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
Cc: 42224-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42224: Emacs currently requires bash and gzip to be propagated to load core functionality
Date: Thu, 20 May 2021 08:42:16 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875yzd1srb.fsf_-_@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87v9irplw9.fsf@gnu.org> ("Ludovic Courtès"'s message of "Mon, 13 Jul 2020 15:47:18 +0200")
Hi,
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> Hi,
>
> Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
>
>> It was discovered while troubleshooting an issue on help-guix [0] that
>> Emacs cannot currently load its subr-x module (there are probably many
>> more) when used in a pure environment (or container) that doesn't
>> propagate bash and gzip, which it uses to decompress the said module.
>
> D’oh!
>
>> The fix would be to patch Emacs' sources so those programs are referred
>> by their absolute store paths rather than simply being looked in PATH.
I believe this was fixed by Leo Prikler in their commit
d13b46fae46fe0e0d529e67ffc7f4074440d1b6e (gnu: emacs: Add coreutils and
gzip to PATH).
Closing!
Maxim
prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-20 12:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-07-06 2:59 bug#42224: Emacs currently requires bash and gzip to be progatade to load core functionality Maxim Cournoyer
2020-07-13 13:47 ` Ludovic Courtès
2021-05-20 12:42 ` Maxim Cournoyer [this message]
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