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bug#42224: Emacs currently requires bash and gzip to be propagated to lo
From: |
Maxim Cournoyer |
Subject: |
bug#42224: Emacs currently requires bash and gzip to be propagated to load core functionality |
Date: |
Thu, 20 May 2021 08:42:16 -0400 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> writes:
> 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.
I believe this was fixed by Leo Prikler in their commit
d13b46fae46fe0e0d529e67ffc7f4074440d1b6e (gnu: emacs: Add coreutils and
gzip to PATH).
Closing!
Maxim
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