Re: Wrong PATH in MSYS2/MINGW64 builds?

[Yuri Khan]

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 11:09 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> >> From: Óscar Fuentes <address@hidden>
>> >>
>> >> I would expect from Emacs to be able to execute the applications that
>> >> reside on the same directory as emacs.exe.
>> >
>> > Why would you expect that?
>>
>> Because it's the default native behavior on Windows?
>>
> Why would you think Emacs should invoke CreateProcess with just
> "bzip2" as the program name?

I'm not thinking what Emacs "should" or "should not". I'm just
pointing out that being able to run programs that reside in the same
directory as the calling process' executable (as well as several other
directories not necessarily listed on $PATH) is a reasonable
expectation for a Windows user.