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From: "Ludovic Courtès" <ludo@gnu.org>
To: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com>
Cc: 42224@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42224: Emacs currently requires bash and gzip to be progatade to load core functionality.
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 15:47:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87v9irplw9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87a70dl56n.fsf@gmail.com> (Maxim Cournoyer's message of "Sun, 05 Jul 2020 22:59:12 -0400")

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.

Yup, looks like the way to go.

Ludo’.




  reply	other threads:[~2020-07-13 13:48 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 [this message]
2021-05-20 12:42   ` bug#42224: Emacs currently requires bash and gzip to be propagated " Maxim Cournoyer

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