GNU bug report logs - #20202
24.3; Comint mode sets a bad $EMACS

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Eli Barzilay <eli <at> barzilay.org>

Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 21:46:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Found in version 24.3

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #96 received at 20202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: phillip.lord <at> russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
Cc: 20484 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca,
 20202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#20484: bug#20202: Considered Harmful 73d213: 'Comint, term,
 and compile new set Emacs'
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 16:40:06 +0300

> From: phillip.lord <at> russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord)
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>,  eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu,  20202 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,  20484 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 14:15:07 +0100
> 
> > They are mostly those who bump into this in Makefile's, where it is
> > relatively easy to switch to another name.  It's inconvenient, but
> > easily fixed.  By contrast, users of shells cannot always easily
> > change what their shells expect in their sources.
> 
> Should we patch the Emacs makefiles to stop making use of $(EMACS) then?

Yes.
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