GNU bug report logs - #42224
Emacs currently requires bash and gzip to be propagated to load core functionality

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>

Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2020 03:00:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer <at> gmail.com>
To: 42224 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#42224: Emacs currently requires bash and gzip to be progatade to load core functionality.
Date: Sun, 05 Jul 2020 22:59:12 -0400
Hello!

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.

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.

Maxim

[0]  https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2020-06/msg00143.html




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