Bug#198887: emacs21: envvars not being inherited everywhere

[Arnaud Vandyck]

Package: emacs21
Version: 21.2-6
Severity: normal

Describing  the problem  at help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org,  Kai  Großjohann and
Stefan  Monnier suggested  me to  fill  a bug.  They also  helped me  to
describe it:

    I put "export CVS_RSH=ssh" into the file ~/.foo.  Then I log in
    via kdm/gdm/xdm and start a shell.  Typing "echo $CVS_RSH" into
    that shell gives me ssh.  Good.  I invoke Emacs from that shell.
    Typing M-: (getenv "CVS_RSH") RET into that Emacs gives me ssh.
    Good.  I invoke Emacs from the menu.  Now typing M-: (getenv
    "CVS_RSH") RET gives me nil.  Bad.
 
Best regards,

Arnaud.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: powerpc
Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.20-powerpc #1 Mon Jun 9 11:05:19 EDT 2003 ppc
Locale: LANG=fr_BE, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE

Versions of packages emacs21 depends on:
ii  emacs21-common            21.2-6         The GNU Emacs editor's common infr
ii  libc6                     2.3.1-17       GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libjpeg62                 6b-7           The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG 
ii  libncurses5               5.3.20030510-1 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii  libpng12-0                1.2.5.0-4      PNG library - runtime
ii  libtiff3g                 3.5.7-2        Tag Image File Format library
ii  xaw3dg                    1.5-23         Xaw3d widget set
ii  xlibs                     4.2.1-6        X Window System client libraries
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.1.4-12     compression library - runtime

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-- Arnaud Vandyck, STE fi, ULg
   Formateur Cellule Programmation.