Please close. If this comes up for other Emacs 29 users, a workaround is as I did: use a symlink.

On Mon, Sep 30, 2024 at 7:16 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> From: Ship Mints <shipmints@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 29 Sep 2024 15:29:25 -0400
>
> This is on Emacs 29.4. Taking a quick look at master, it seems this hack is gone.

So this bug can be closed now?