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bug#42224: Emacs currently requires bash and gzip to be progatade to loa
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Ludovic Courtès |
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bug#42224: Emacs currently requires bash and gzip to be progatade to load core functionality. |
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Date: |
Mon, 13 Jul 2020 15:47:18 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.3 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Maxim Cournoyer <maxim.cournoyer@gmail.com> 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’.