bug#42224: closed (Emacs currently requires bash and gzip to be propagated to load core functionality)

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propagated to load core functionality
has caused the debbugs.gnu.org bug report #42224,
regarding Emacs currently requires bash and gzip to be propagated to load core 
functionality
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> Emacs currently requires bash and gzip to be progatade to load core functionality.
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> Sun, 05 Jul 2020 22:59:12 -0400
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> Hello!
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Maxim
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> [0]  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2020-06/msg00143.html
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> Re: bug#42224: Emacs currently requires bash and gzip to be propagated to load core functionality
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> Thu, 20 May 2021 08:42:16 -0400
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> Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux)
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> Hi,
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> Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
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> > Hi,
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> > Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> skribis:
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> >> 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.
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> > D’oh!
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> >> 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.
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> I believe this was fixed by Leo Prikler in their commit
> d13b46fae46fe0e0d529e67ffc7f4074440d1b6e (gnu: emacs: Add coreutils and
> gzip to PATH).
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> Closing!
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> Maxim
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