Debian bug report logs - #912
Couldn't exec the program /usr/lib/emacs/19.28/i486-debian-linux/env

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Subject: Re: Bug#912: Couldn't exec the program /usr/lib/emacs/19.28/i486-debian-linux/env

On further investigation, the env in /usr/bin doesn't have quite the
same interface as the one I'm used to (which uses - to delimit between
environmental variables and command line).  Perhaps it would be better
to include a second (backwards compatible) executable, and leave a
note of documentation somewhere about this...

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Raul

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From: rdr@legislate.com (Raul Miller)
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Subject: Couldn't exec the program /usr/lib/emacs/19.28/i486-debian-linux/env

Package: emacs

env is not in exec-directory, so code such as:
    (let ((proc (apply 'start-process name buffer (concat exec-directory "env")

doesn't work.

(It's fine that env is in /usr/bin/, but there should be a softlink so
that imported emacs code doesn't need to be bashed up.)

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Raul Miller