Re: update of installer for Win32 XEmacs-21.0
At 15:37 28/09/98 -0400, Charles G Waldman wrote:
I have found a usable "grep.exe" as well as several other of
the
required programs. However, I need advice from the Masters of XEmacs
on how to bundle these with the XEmacs installer.
The natural place to stick these programs is in
<install-root>/XEmacs-21.0/i386-pc-win32. However if they are
installed there, and this dir is *not* added to PATH, then M-x grep
still fails, saying "no such program: grep". There is nothing
particularly clever in the "grep" function (in compile.el) which tells
it to look anywhere special for the "grep" executable - it just
executes it as a shell command assuming that the directory containing
grep will be on the user's PATH.
Shouldn't exec-directory be added to the path? This would be a lisp level
change that would not affect other windoze programs. I suspect there maybe
some (good?) reason for not doing this - what do people think?
andy
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