GNU bug report logs - #18765
Emacs 24.4 release candidate 1: "term/w32-win.el" is missing on Windows

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Message #37 received at 18765 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 18765 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 16429 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#18765: Re: Re: Re: bug#18765: Emacs 24.4 release candidate
 1:	"term/w32-win.el"	is	missing on Windows
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 05:49:16 +0300

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: 18765 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 16429 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2014 17:15:47 -0400
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > If you know how, please suggest a method.
> 
> Either a command-line option meaning "ignore the registry", which gets
> added to the Makefile Emacs flags

How does this help when the user just invokes "emacs" with no options,
as in this case?

> or, if environment variables trump the registry, change it so that
> empty environment variables mean "use the defaults" (right now they
> just break things), and change the Makefiles to set empty
> environment variables rather than unsetting them like they do now
> (seemed not straightforward last time I looked).

Why are you talking about the Makefile?  The problem ws not in
invoking Emacs from the Makefile, it was in interactive usage after
the build is done (in bug #18765).

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