From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 42534@debbugs.gnu.org, 37615@debbugs.gnu.org, bruce.connor.am@gmail.com
Subject: bug#37615: bug#42534: 28.0.50; package-test-macro-compilation test fails on macOS
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 10:39:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83mty1m060.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871rfdef43.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Fri, 25 Dec 2020 22:43:24 +0100)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: Artur Malabarba <bruce.connor.am@gmail.com>, 37615@debbugs.gnu.org,
> 42534@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 25 Dec 2020 22:43:24 +0100
>
> The problem on Macos seems to be that it's comparing file-truenames, but
> that's not what's in the load history. For instance,
> "/var/folders/l4/brbf3lnd693fpdl8bn87q5w80000gn/T/pkg-test-user-dir-FaftUD/macro-problem-1.0/macro-problem-autoloads"
> is in load-history, but it's finding conflicts by truenaming:
>
> (file-truename "/var/folders/l4/brbf3lnd693fpdl8bn87q5w80000gn/T/pkg-test-user-dir-FaftUD/macro-problem-1.0/macro-problem-autoloads")
> => "/private/var/folders/l4/brbf3lnd693fpdl8bn87q5w80000gn/T/pkg-test-user-dir-FaftUD/macro-problem-1.0/macro-problem-autoloads"
>
> And indeed:
>
> larsi@open-catalina test % ls -ld /var
> lrwxr-xr-x@ 1 root admin 11 Dec 18 15:11 /var -> private/var
>
> The following seems to fix the problem for me on Macos and doesn't lead
> to any breakages on Debian, so I'm pushing it now. Can you check
> whether this fixes the problem on Windows?
Yes, thanks.
In my case, the problem was that MS-Windows (in the version I run
here) produces short 8+3 alias file names for long directory names,
the file name for temporary-file-directory didn't compare equal to
what Emacs expected, exactly as on macOS; file-truename fixed that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-26 8:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-04 8:13 bug#37615: 27.0.50; package-test-macro-compilation fails Eli Zaretskii
2019-10-04 8:23 ` Stefan Kangas
2019-10-04 8:47 ` Robert Pluim
2019-10-04 8:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-25 6:29 ` bug#37615: bug#42534: 28.0.50; package-test-macro-compilation test fails on macOS Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-25 7:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-25 19:37 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-25 20:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-12-25 20:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-25 21:43 ` bug#37615: " Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-12-26 8:39 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-12-26 22:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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