Re: [Bug-zile] Missing dependency for zile.1.in Makefile target

[Reuben Thomas]

On 8 September 2010 10:30, Ulrich Mueller <address@hidden> wrote:
> In a nutshell: Configure scripts of some programs are testing for the
> location of Emacs's lisp dir, typically using an expression like this:
>
>   $EMACS -batch -q -eval '(while load-path (princ (concat
>   (car load-path) "\n")) (setq load-path (cdr load-path)))'
>
> (So far, we have identified bash, gettext, gpm, and qingy, but
> probably this list will become longer.)
>
> Now if on a user's system /usr/bin/emacs is symlinked to zile, above
> test will hang: Zile will happily ignore all command line options and
> interpret the last argument as a file name.
>
> Therefore, I had experimented with making Zile error out if an unknown
> command line option is encountered, instead of displaying an error
> message in the minibuffer.

There's an obvious fix here to Zile, which is to make it support
-batch in some basic form (as it has done in the past). Then the sort
of invocation you mention above will indeed quit with an error. Would
that fix your problem?

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