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Re: no executable emacs binary in exec-directory
From: |
Lennart Borgman |
Subject: |
Re: no executable emacs binary in exec-directory |
Date: |
Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:48:33 +0100 |
On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 2:46 PM, Stephen J. Turnbull
<address@hidden> wrote:
> Juanma Barranquero writes:
> > On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 14:23, Sven Joachim <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > > Actually, on GNU/Linux [emacs found in exec-directory should
> > > never be the case.
> >
> > Not even when you build in place?
>
> exec-directory is where emacs finds its bundled copies of utilities
> like movemail and etags. When running-in-place, that's lib-src. So,
> no. The emacs binary should be on $PATH, not in exec-directory.
I do not think that the emacs binary always should be on PATH. On w32
that is not usually the way to handle it.