Subject: Re: bug#42224: Emacs currently requires bash and gzip to be progatade to load core functionality.

From: Ludovic Courtès <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2020 15:47:18 +0200

Hi,

Maxim Cournoyer <[email-masked]> skribis:

> It was discovered while troubleshooting an issue on help-guix [0] that
> Emacs cannot currently load its subr-x module (there are probably many
> more) when used in a pure environment (or container) that doesn't
> propagate bash and gzip, which it uses to decompress the said module.

D’oh!

> The fix would be to patch Emacs' sources so those programs are referred
> by their absolute store paths rather than simply being looked in PATH.

Yup, looks like the way to go.

Ludo’.