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26.0.50; Can't load htmlfontify if shell binary doesn't exist

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From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>
To: 25468 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#25468: 26.0.50; Can't load htmlfontify if shell binary doesn't exist
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 17:27:27 +0000

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Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com> schrieb am Di., 17. Jan. 2017 um
15:21 Uhr:

>
> $ SHELL=/doesnotexist src/emacs -Q -batch -l htmlfontify ; echo $?
> Searching for program: No such file or directory, /doesnotexist
> 255
>
> This is of course a rather rare edge case, but I think that
> unavailability of a shell shouldn't prevent htmlfontify from loading.
> The shell is only used to initialize hfy-etags-cmd, this variable could
> simply be initialized to nil if no shell is found, similar to when no
> etags binary is found.
>

I've attached a patch.

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