From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#767: 23.0.60; compilation-start gives bad default-directory Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:40:45 +0200 Message-ID: <48C42E3D.3000709@gmail.com> References: <48B00B00.1050305@gmail.com> Reply-To: "Lennart Borgman \(gmail\)" , 767@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1220818088 21450 80.91.229.12 (7 Sep 2008 20:08:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 7 Sep 2008 20:08:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 767@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 07 22:09:03 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KcQZA-0008Us-6b for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:09:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54528 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KcQY9-0004Am-BO for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:07:57 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KcQXw-000439-1i for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:07:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KcQXq-0003z7-FR for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:07:43 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=38421 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KcQXq-0003yv-7R for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:07:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu ([138.23.92.77]:46432) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KcQXp-0005KH-6z for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:07:38 -0400 Original-Received: from rzlab.ucr.edu (rzlab.ucr.edu [127.0.0.1]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m87K7WNo023144; Sun, 7 Sep 2008 13:07:32 -0700 Original-Received: (from debbugs@localhost) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id m87Jo3Nl015978; Sun, 7 Sep 2008 12:50:03 -0700 X-Loop: don@donarmstrong.com Resent-From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" Resent-To: bug-submit-list@donarmstrong.com Resent-CC: Emacs Bugs Resent-Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:50:03 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: don@donarmstrong.com X-Emacs-PR-Message: report 767 X-Emacs-PR-Package: emacs X-Emacs-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 767-submit@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com id=B767.122081645713729 (code B ref 767); Sun, 07 Sep 2008 19:50:03 +0000 Original-Received: (at 767) by emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; 7 Sep 2008 19:40:57 +0000 Original-Received: from ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net (ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net [80.76.149.212]) by rzlab.ucr.edu (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id m87JerIU013723 for <767@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com>; Sun, 7 Sep 2008 12:40:55 -0700 Original-Received: from c83-254-151-87.bredband.comhem.se ([83.254.151.87]:64693 helo=[127.0.0.1]) by ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net with esmtp (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1KcQ7w-0005mo-5t; Sun, 07 Sep 2008 21:40:53 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071031 Thunderbird/2.0.0.9 Mnenhy/0.7.5.666 In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 080907-0, 2008-09-07), Outbound message X-Antivirus-Status: Clean X-Originating-IP: 83.254.151.87 X-Scan-Result: No virus found in message 1KcQ7w-0005mo-5t. X-Scan-Signature: ch-smtp01.sth.basefarm.net 1KcQ7w-0005mo-5t aa63a0c70e439154ce1d11478e8effce X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) Resent-Date: Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:07:43 -0400 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:20309 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier wrote: >> If on w32 default-directory is something like c:\top\sub then the > > Then it's a bug. C-h v default-directory says: > > Name of default directory of current buffer. Should end with slash. > To interactively change the default directory, use command `cd'. > > So if it doesn't end in slash, we have a problem. I never noticed that it must end with a slash and in many circumstances it works without it. I suggested that this should be fixed somewhere in start-process and I think Chong added something along those lines. Do you suggest something else? (Making Emacs actually require the ending slash seems is not very backwards compatible.)