Subject: bug#78982: 30.1; find-program value mismatch between runtime and ~grep.el~ definition

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2025 19:01:26 +0300

> From: Anush V <[email-masked]>
> Date: Wed, 09 Jul 2025 10:31:03 -0400
> 
> Hello Emacs maintainers,  emacs --no-init; 
>  
>   C-h v find-program 
>  
> Shows 
>  
>   find-program is a variable defined in ‘grep.el’. 
>  
>   Its value is 
>   "/gnu/store/6i0xi5kf38jk54sw64akd3iv8scw5g6x-findutils-4.9.0/bin/find" 
>  
> However, the definition of find-program in `grep.el` is 
>  
>   (defvar find-program (purecopy 
>   "/gnu/store/w4p913kmnga3xh80vx8vnkri42dcmqi3-findutils-4.9.0/bin/find") 
>     "The default find program. 
>   This is used by commands like `grep-find-command', `find-dired' 
>   and others.") 
>  
> The find-program value differs, despite no user configuration being
> loaded.  Could you confirm whether this is expected behavior or
> a potential bug?

The actual value of find-program set by grep.el is this:

  (defvar find-program (purecopy "find")
    "The default find program.
  This is used by commands like `grep-find-command', `find-dired'
  and others.")

So the value is just "find", and some code somewhere assigned a
different value to this variable, and you need to figure out which
code did that and why.

I don't see any Emacs bugs here.