[debbugs-tracker] bug#24471: closed (25.1.50; Error on empty PATH component)

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> 25.1.50; Error on empty PATH component
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> Mon, 19 Sep 2016 21:06:38 +0200
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> In GNU Emacs 25.1 (x86_64 for Windows)
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> I've updated from Emacs 24.5 to Emacs 25.1 this morning at work.
> Starting the new Emacs produced an error during initialization trying to
> process (directory-file-name nil).  The reason it turned out was that
> our IT department in their infinite wisdom had ended the system PATH
> with a ';'.  Emacs extended that path with ';/usr/bin/' (or something
> like that, I'm making this report from home), this created an empty path
> element that ended up at directory-file-name.  Emacs should sanitize the
> PATH if it can't process nil in downstream functions.
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> Regards,
> Achim.
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> Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)
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> Version: 25.2
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> Glenn Morris wrote:
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> > Please just replace nil elements with ".".
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> > The point of that code in cus-start is so that exec-path does not show
> > up in customize-rogue output under normal circumstances. A test case is
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> > PATH=:$PATH emacs -Q -f customize-rogue
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