Re: Problems with HOME on w32

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 22:37:45 +0200
> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> 
> - Create "C:\.emacs". Put something like (message "c:/emacs here") in it.
> - In cmd.exe shell do "set home="
> - Then start Emacs from this cmd.exe shell with just "emacs.exe".
> 
> The Emacs frame that is shown is for me then splitted in two windows 
> with a warning in the bottom window saying
> 
> Error (initialization): User has no home directory

It turns out the code in init_environment was simply not dump-safe.  I
think I fixed it now in CVS; please check.  But beware: to reproduce
the bug you _must_ dump Emacs when C:/.emacs does not exist, then
invoke the dumped Emacs with C:/.emacs in place.  If temacs sees
C:/.emacs, the bug will not happen, even with the sources before my
change.  This puzzled me at first, as just recompiling w32.c seemed to
solve the problem.