Subject: Re: bug#20484: bug#20202: Considered Harmful 73d213: 'Comint, term, and compile new set Emacs'

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 08 Apr 2016 11:45:07 -0400

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Should we patch the Emacs makefiles to stop making use of $(EMACS) then?
>
> Yes.

Why? Emacs builds fine with "EMACS=blah" in the environment, since it
explicitly sets EMACS as needed. The only issue here is with Makefiles
that use their environment unsanitised.