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bug#33984: 26.1; fortune-compile does not search exec-path for strfile p
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#33984: 26.1; fortune-compile does not search exec-path for strfile program |
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Wed, 10 Jul 2019 00:32:28 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
"Benjamin Ragheb" <ben@benzado.com> writes:
> I have attached a patch which corrects this problem by using
> executable-find before calling shell-command. If strfile cannot be
> found, it signals an error.
Makes sense.
> I tried to keep the patch as small as possible, and resisted the
> temptation to replace the call to shell-command with
> call-process. Doing so would have broken compatibility with the
> fortune-quiet-strfile-options variable, which people may have
> customized.
Yeah, that would be better, but would be incompatible as you say.
> - (concat fortune-file fortune-database-extension)))))
> + (concat fortune-file fortune-database-extension))))
> + (strfile (or (executable-find fortune-strfile)
> + (error "Can't find strfile program %s"
> fortune-strfile)))
> (cond ((file-exists-p fortune-file)
> (cond ((file-newer-than-file-p fortune-file fortune-dat)
> (message "Compiling new fortune database %s" fortune-dat)
> (shell-command
> - (concat fortune-strfile fortune-strfile-options
> + (concat strfile fortune-strfile-options
I've now applied this patch to the Emacs trunk.
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