GNU bug report logs - #2062
PATH can contain non-expanded variables

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Packages: w32, emacs;

Reported by: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 13:10:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Found in version 23.0.60

Done: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 2062 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
        jasonr <at> f2s.com
Subject: bug#2062: PATH can contain non-expanded variables
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 09:24:43 -0500

> Not only that: if I start Emacs from a desktop shortcut (and, thus,
> through ShellExecute), App Paths is correctly expanded.

So your patch works around a bug in some other place which fails to
expand PATH.


        Stefan
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