From: Juri Linkov <juri@linkov.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: 55743@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#55743: 28.1.50; No directory error in comp-run-async-workers
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2022 22:13:37 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86a6aw2o4e.fsf@mail.linkov.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83h754hbwf.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 01 Jun 2022 14:16:16 +0300")
>> >> Shouldn't native compilation run in the directory where the emacs
>> >> source files are located instead of running in the default directory
>> >> of an arbitrary buffer that might be invalid?
>> >
>> > No, because native compilation could be invoked to compile a file that
>> > has nothing to do with the Emacs source tree, e.g., some file of the
>> > user or some 3rd-party package installed in some arbitrary place.
>>
>> Still, shouldn't it run compilation in the same directory
>> where that file is located? Isn't this better than running
>> compilation in a random dir from a random buffer?
>
> No, it isn't better, because the directory should be set by the
> caller. The compilation primitive cannot second-guess what the caller
> meant. For example, the file to be compiled could load other files,
> and load-path could mention the current directory in some relative
> form; or the directory of the file could not be chdir'ed into, but
> files in it could be accessed; or some VCS could be involved (so you
> need to be in the VCS repository), or something else. make-process
> uses the default-directory of the current buffer because making sure
> that directory is the correct one is left to the caller, and it makes
> it easy for the caller to ensure the compilation runs in the correct
> directory.
I don't understand who is the caller? The user? The user visits
an non-existent directory, by e.g. `C-x C-f /bla/bla/bla', then
emacs compilation kicks in using that directory, and signals the error.
If this is the intended behavior, then I guess this bug report can be closed,
since I fixed the non-existent directory case in *Completions*.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-01 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-05-31 17:31 bug#55743: 28.1.50; No directory error in comp-run-async-workers Juri Linkov
2022-05-31 19:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-05-31 19:49 ` Juri Linkov
2022-06-01 2:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-01 6:13 ` Juri Linkov
2022-06-01 11:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-01 19:13 ` Juri Linkov [this message]
2022-06-01 19:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-02 7:40 ` Juri Linkov
2022-06-02 8:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-02 8:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-02 8:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-02 8:51 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-02 10:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-03 3:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-06-03 5:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-03 8:22 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-06-03 11:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-02 8:17 ` Andreas Schwab
2022-06-02 8:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-02 17:30 ` Juri Linkov
2022-06-02 19:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-03 7:49 ` Juri Linkov
2022-06-03 11:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-06-01 6:10 ` Juri Linkov
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