Re: EMACS enviroment variable wrong in M-x compile

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, David =?iso-8859-1?q?K=E5gedal?= wrote:

> In Emacs 21.2 (from debian package emacs21 21.2-1), a change in
> compile.el was introduced (but not mentioned in NEWS of even the
> changelog) so that it doesn't set EMACS in the environment when
> running compilation processes.  Unfortunately, the test seems to be
> inverted.
> 
> compile.el:844:
>             (if (getenv "EMACS")
>                 (setq process-environment
>                       (cons "EMACS=t" process-environment)))
> 
> Shouldn't the test be (not (getenv "EMACS"))?  As it is now, $EMACS
> won't get set for me.

Thank you for your report.  Yes, this is a bug.  It will be fixed in the 
next release.