[Bug: 21.4.18] compile command path not that of login shell

[Larry Evans]

On 05/28/2006 12:29 PM, Larry Evans wrote:
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> Dear Bug Team!
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> The following is my response to Stephen Tumbull's post:
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>  > Do you get the same results (bad behavior with compile, and the
>  > various values for PATH I've requested above for your usual
>  > environment) if XEmacs is invoked with "xemacs -vanilla"?
> 
> No! With "xemacs -vanilla", in the 'shell command toll', I get
> the correct, longer value.  Maybe that's the important clue!
> 
I've discovered something else important.  The problems I was
reporting did not start from invokation from an xterm.  Instead,
they started from an icewm menu item.  The code executed when
I pressed this item was:

     prog    "XEmacs21-nomule" - /bin/sh -c "/usr/bin/xemacs21-nomule"

OTOH, when:

     /usr/bin/xemacs21-nomule

is executed from a terminal, the problem with PATH disappears.  I guess
the mention of "-vanilla" as a good clue was just due to me having
to invoke the command from an xterm and it was xterm invokation
which lead to the better results.