bug#12044: 24.1; ls does not support --dired

[Peter Dyballa]

Hello!

In GNU Emacs 23 it works to launch it with -Q and a system ls which does not 
support --dired (but -dired). This fails to work in version 24.1. This version 
is also missing a possibly helpful setting like

        (setq insert-directory-program "gls" dired-use-ls-dired t)

In GNU Emacs 24.1.1 (x86_64-apple-darwin10.8.0, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars)
 of 2012-07-25 on Sumac.local
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11202000
Configured using:
 `configure '--without-pop' '--without-sound' '--without-gpm'
 '--without-dbus' '--without-gconf' '--with-x-toolkit=athena'
 '--disable-ns-self-contained' '--enable-dependency-tracking'
 '--x-libraries=/opt/local/lib' '--x-includes=/opt/local/include'
 '--enable-locallisppath=/Library/Application
 Support/Emacs/calendar24:/Library/Application Support/Emacs' 'CFLAGS=-v
 -g -H -pipe -fPIC -fno-common -Os -m64 -march=core2 -mtune=core2
 -foptimize-register-move -ftree-vectorize -fomit-frame-pointer
 -msse4.2' 'LDFLAGS=-Wl,-dead_strip_dylibs -Wl,-bind_at_load -Wl,-t
 -m64' 'CC=clang' 'CXX=clang++' 'LD=llvm-gcc-4.2'
 
'PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/local/lib/pkgconfig:/opt/local/share/pkgconfig''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Fundamental

Minor modes in effect:
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-encryption-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t

Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
ls does not support --dired; see `dired-use-ls-dired' for more details.
Quit


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Greetings

  Pete

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