[x-face] doesn't display in 5.2.25 with emacs-19.31

[x-face] doesn't display in 5.2.25 with emacs-19.31

[Danny Siu]

It works in 5.2.19.

I found out that in 5.2.25, shell-file-name and shell-command-switch are used
instead of "sh" and "-c".  In my case, shell-file-name is set to "/bin/csh"
an shell-command-switch is "-c" and I got error from xv like "file /tmp/xxx
contains no data".   I tried setting shell-command-switch to "-f -c" to
ignore my .cshrc file but it still doesn't give. 

If I change shell-file-name to "sh", then x-face works again.

gnus-article-x-face-command is set to "{ echo '/* Width=48, Height=48 */';
uncompface; } | icontopbm | xv -quit -" by gnus-ems.el.

In gnus.el:

5.2.19:
------
(defun gnus-article-display-x-face (&optional force)
  ...
  ...
  ...
		 (start-process
		  "gnus-x-face" nil "sh" "-c" gnus-article-x-face-command))
  ...


5.2.25:
------
(defun gnus-article-display-x-face (&optional force)
  ...
  ...
  ...
		 (start-process
		  "gnus-x-face" nil shell-file-name shell-command-switch
		  gnus-article-x-face-command))
  ...

Any hints?

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Re: [x-face] doesn't display in 5.2.25 with emacs-19.31

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Danny Siu <dsiu@mv.us.adobe.com> writes:

> I found out that in 5.2.25, shell-file-name and shell-command-switch are used
> instead of "sh" and "-c".  In my case, shell-file-name is set to "/bin/csh"
> an shell-command-switch is "-c" and I got error from xv like "file /tmp/xxx
> contains no data".   I tried setting shell-command-switch to "-f -c" to
> ignore my .cshrc file but it still doesn't give. 

[...]

> Any hints?

Set `shell-file-name' to "bash"?  :-)

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Re: [x-face] doesn't display in 5.2.25 with emacs-19.31

[Christopher Davis]

DS> == Danny Siu <dsiu@mv.us.adobe.com>

 DS> I found out that in 5.2.25, shell-file-name and shell-command-switch
 DS> are used instead of "sh" and "-c".  In my case, shell-file-name is
 DS> set to "/bin/csh" an shell-command-switch is "-c" and I got error
 DS> from xv like "file /tmp/xxx contains no data".  I tried setting
 DS> shell-command-switch to "-f -c" to ignore my .cshrc file but it still
 DS> doesn't give.

 DS> If I change shell-file-name to "sh", then x-face works again.

(1) try shell-command-switch as "-fc" rather than "-f -c"; it probably
    gets passed as one argument.

(2) make sure your .cshrc produces NO output when run non-interactively on
    a non-tty.  'rsh localhost cat /dev/null' is often a good test.

(3) Upgrade to XEmacs and compile with built-in x-face support :)
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