GNU bug report logs - #15933
make check not working

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 12:56:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 15933 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com
Subject: bug#15933: make check not working
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 19:33:30 -0500

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> No (if it did, it would break too many shell scripts).  The conversion
> only happens in environment and in argv[] passed to native programs.

I was sort of expecting it with the environment, but not with argv.
So in particular "emacs -L :/foo" would result in command-line-args
containing ("-L" ";/foo")?
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