Re: no executable emacs binary in exec-directory

[Lennart Borgman]

On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 2:41 PM, Lennart Borgman
<address@hidden> wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Sven Joachim <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On 2008-11-29 14:00 +0100, Lennart Borgman wrote:
>>
>>> I thought that the currently running emacs binary should be in
>>> exec-directory. That does not seem to be the case always.
>>
>> Actually, on GNU/Linux this should never be the case.
>>
>>> How do you find it?
>>
>> It is in invocation-directory, and its name is invocation-name.
>
> Thanks. Is this then the way to find the executable?
>
> (defun ourcomments-find-emacs-executable ()
>  (let ((exec-path (list invocation-directory)))
>    (executable-find invocation-name)))

Hm, this looks better, but I wonder about the "1".

(defun ourcomments-find-emacs ()
  (locate-file invocation-name
               (list invocation-directory)
               exec-suffixes
               1 ;; Depreceated, but used in executable-find
               ))