GNU bug report logs - #30063
26.0.90; Silent fail with `rst-compile-pdf-preview'

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: Simen Heggestøyl <simenheg <at> gmail.com>
Cc: stefan <at> merten-home.de, 30063 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#30063: 26.0.90; Silent fail with `rst-compile-pdf-preview'
Date: Sun, 28 Jan 2018 13:11:34 -0500

Simen Heggestøyl <simenheg <at> gmail.com> writes:

>  	 (command (format "%s %s %s && %s %s ; rm %s"
> +			  pdf-compile-program
>  			  buffer-file-name tmp-filename
>  			  rst-pdf-program tmp-filename tmp-filename)))
> +    (unless (executable-find pdf-compile-program)
> +      (error "Cannot find executable `%s'" pdf-compile-program))
> +    (unless (executable-find rst-pdf-program)
> +      (error "Cannot find executable `%s'" rst-pdf-program))

It's possible to have PATH and exec-path desynchronized, such that the
above code could throw an error even though the
start-process-shell-command call later would succeed.  Maybe we should
should just consider that a misconfiguration on the user's part though.

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