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25.1.50; Error on empty PATH component

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24471: closed (25.1.50; Error on empty PATH component)
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2016 01:57:01 +0000

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From: Achim Gratz <Stromeko <at> nexgo.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 25.1.50; Error on empty PATH component
Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 21:06:38 +0200

In GNU Emacs 25.1 (x86_64 for Windows)

I've updated from Emacs 24.5 to Emacs 25.1 this morning at work.
Starting the new Emacs produced an error during initialization trying to
process (directory-file-name nil).  The reason it turned out was that
our IT department in their infinite wisdom had ended the system PATH
with a ';'.  Emacs extended that path with ';/usr/bin/' (or something
like that, I'm making this report from home), this created an empty path
element that ended up at directory-file-name.  Emacs should sanitize the
PATH if it can't process nil in downstream functions.



Regards,
Achim.
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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 24471-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24471: 25.1.50; Error on empty PATH component
Date: Sun, 16 Oct 2016 21:56:49 -0400

Version: 25.2

Glenn Morris wrote:

> Please just replace nil elements with ".".
>
> The point of that code in cus-start is so that exec-path does not show
> up in customize-rogue output under normal circumstances. A test case is
>
> PATH=:$PATH emacs -Q -f customize-rogue

Done.

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