bug#2062: PATH can contain non-expanded variables

[Jason Rumney]

Juanma Barranquero wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 02:56, Jason Rumney <jasonr@f2s.com> wrote:
>
>   
> > The right place to do this expansion is where the variable is read from the
> > registry, and only when the type is REG_EXPAND_SZ.
> >     
>
> The problem is, we don't read
> "HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\App
> Paths\emacs.exe\Path", we find the PATH made for us and it contains
> unexpanded variables.
>   

If the system does not handle REG_EXPAND_SZ in the App Paths registry 
values, then the bug is with whatever incorrectly used that type when 
setting the registry value.