Re: Possible problem with M-x compile

[Alexis Layton]

Richard Stallman wrote:

>    cd $CLIENTLIB_BUILDDIR && fmake tests && make
>
>    and this has worked for some time now, on Emacs versions 20 and above.
>    In the last two weeks however, the following error is presented:
>
>    cd: No such directory found via CDPATH environment variable
>
>    My shell is /bin/bash, and yes, the environment variable is defined,
>    as is CDPATH.
>
> What is the definition of that envvar?
>
> How about adding  pwd>~/foo  to the start of your compile command
> in each version and see what it tells you?
> Then try both with  echo $CLIENTLIB_BUILDDIR > ~/foo.
> Then try both with  echo $CDPATH > ~/foo.
> This ought to show what's going on.
>
>  
(see my earlier message, which I forgot to CC to emacs-pretest-bug)

I also tried unsetting CDPATH before starting emacs, since 
CLIENTLIB_BUILDDIR is always absolute.
Same error message, which leads me to believe the CDPATH part of the 
error message is a red
herring and the problem is a general failure when the first part of the 
compile command is a cd.
I am wondering if the emacs logic is trying to perform the cd itself, 
instead of letting the shell
handle it?

Alexis
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