[Info-vax] Installing and using GNV - some feedback and questions

[hb]

On 10/24/2016 09:00 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2016-10-23, hb <end.of at inter.net> wrote:
>>
>> Or you use an alias like
>> bash-4.3$ alias emacs="/BLD_ROOT/local/bin/emacs-21_2 -map 
>> 'BLD_ROOT:[local.bin]emacs-21_2.dump'"
>>
> 
> Thanks Hans.
> 
>> It seems that emacs under GNV has a problem to open files in a 
>> subdirectory in a relative path without the prefix of the current directory:
>>
>> bash-4.3$ emacs src/main.c
>> fails to load the file but
>> bash-4.3$ emacs ./src/main.c
>> works as expected (as well as a runemacs [.src]main.c).
>>
>> I didn't try to figure out what causes this behavior. Also, I didn't run 
>> more tests, so there may be more or other problems.
> 
> I wonder if bash is doing something unusual during filename
> expansion.

I don't think so. This is just a VMS version of emacs using some VMS
specific code for mapping the dump (or map) file and maybe for
completing pathnames. Absolute paths also work as expected.