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bug#7784: executable-find does not find scripts on woe32
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#7784: executable-find does not find scripts on woe32 |
Date: |
Wed, 05 Jan 2011 18:24:24 +0200 |
> Date: Wed, 5 Jan 2011 09:40:06 -0500
> From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
> Cc: ofv@wanadoo.es, 7784@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> On Wed, Jan 5, 2011 at 6:26 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >> Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2011 23:05:16 -0500
> >> From: Sam Steingold <sds@gnu.org>
> >> Cc: 7784@debbugs.gnu.org
> >>
> >
> > Could you please describe the specific use-case where this issue got
> > in your way? Because otherwise this discussion sounds a bit academic
> > to me.
>
> when I try to use cygwin in native windows emacs, this works for
> binaries but not for scripts.
> e.g., using VC with cygwin-provided bzr and hg does not work.
Using any Emacs command that goes through shell-command-* should work
if you configure Emacs to use the Cygwin Bash as the shell.
Emacs commands that invoke programs directly (call/start-process etc.)
will not work with Unix shell scripts, but you can craft trivial *.bat
files that invoke the script via the Cygwin Bash, and put them on
PATH. E.g., to invoke Cygwin bzr, create a bzr.bat (untested) with
this single line:
@X:\path\to\cygwin\bash $*
> there is no reason for this not to work except for the
> check_executable()'s return value.
Yes, there is a reason: the native Windows build of Emacs uses native
Windows APIs to run subprocesses, and those APIs don't know how to run
a Unix shell script.
Or maybe I misunderstand the details, in which case please tell more
regarding the Emacs functions which failed (those that eventually
called executable-find) and the relevant error message(s).
In general, though, if you want to use Cygwin tools, I suggest to use
a Cygwin build of Emacs. Then everything should "just work".
bug#7784: executable-find does not find scripts on woe32, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/01/05
bug#7784: executable-find does not find scripts on woe32, Jason Rumney, 2011/01/05