On 2009-12-27 19:37 +0100, John Martin wrote: > Previously you asked: >> So busybox is not installed as /bin/gzip, but somewhere else on your >> PATH. > > Indeed. Not only in /bin/busybox but also ~/bin/busybox with, I > think, the default PATH. > > ,----[ printenv PATH ] > /home/jam/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/games > `---- > > When I move busybox out of ~/bin all seems to be well. > > I dunno how busybox got to ~/bin but it was unintended. > > I do not however understand why emacs should have tried to use busybox > instead of /bin/gzip? Is this to be expected?
No. Note, however, that Emacs invokes gzip not directly, but via the shell specified in jka-compr-shell, which is "sh" by default. Maybe ~/bin/sh is a symlink to busybox as well? > Having cleared the problem by moving the offending file away I cannot > seem to reproduce the problem by moving the file back to ~/bin. > > If the result of the extraneous `bin/budybox is to be expected then it > would seem that this bug is ready to be closed, no? I would think so, yes. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
