Re: Fwd: Re: Minor problem in "Apropos" - 21.2.93

[Richard Stallman]

     I looked in the the file "lisp/help.el". In place of using
     "exec-directory", we should be using "invocation-directory".

Using exec-directory looks correct to me; the fns... file is supposed
to be in that directory.  If it is not present there for you,
I think that is the bug.  Can you investigate why it was not
installed there?

I am pretty sure invocation-directory is not correct,
because that is nil for an installed Emacs.  And for an
uninstalled Emacs, it is the src directory, which is the
wrong place for fns-...


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Hi,
 I looked in the the file "lisp/help.el". In place of using
 "exec-directory", we should be using "invocation-directory". This will
 ensure that the search for "fns-VERSION.el" file is made in the correct
 folder.
Looking forward to seeing this minor fix.
file:lisp/help.el
line:616
Other lines (doc):602,607

with best regards,
dhruva

On Mon, 09 Dec 2002 19:10:40 +0530, "Dhruva Krishnamurthy"
<address@hidden> said:
> Hello,
>  I am sorry for misleading you all. By sheer coincidence I had and
>  environmental variable "EMACSPATH" with other folders which I was adding
>  to the PATH variable. I realized, EMACSPATH is not to be used other than
>  just pointing to the path where emacs.exe resides. My sincere apologies
>  for those who have spent time trying to debug.
> 
> with best regards,
> dhruva
> NOTE:
> I feel we should use the ARGV[0] and do a strtok() to get the actual path
> to store in "exec-directory" var instead of just taking it from the
> EMACSPATH env variable.
> 
> On Mon, 09 Dec 2002 18:50:24 +0530, "Dhruva Krishnamurthy"
> <address@hidden> said:
> > Hi,
> >  I have built GNU Emacs 21.2.93 using MinGW 2.0 on W2K platform. When I
> >  do the following:
> > M-x apropos "stipple"
> > Select "set-face-stipple", command for extrra information/help, I get the
> > following error message:
> > Cannot open load file: d:/GNU/bin/fns-21.2.93.1.el
> > 
> > I have installed GNU Emacs under: D:/GNU/emacs. I feel it should have
> > looked into the folder "D:/GNU/emacs/bin" where the file
> > "fns-21.2.93.1.el" is present.
> > 
> > with regards,
> > dhruva
> > 
> > -- 
> > Dhruva Krishnamurthy
> > Home: http://www.geocities.com/gnued/
> > 
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> Dhruva Krishnamurthy
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