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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Alex Kosorukoff <alex@3form.com>
Cc: 17467 <17467@debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: bug#17467: 24.3; locate-library returning spurious path
Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 17:56:15 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvppjk3s3p.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHD9_tRx8Gx58xdTkgMkOK-=p0ZurHEVCH90FHhq6yEjHkywng@mail.gmail.com> (Alex Kosorukoff's message of "Sun, 11 May 2014 13:45:12 -0700")

> The issue is that locate-library returns spurious paths like ".*/tramp" or
> ".*xxx/tramp.gz"

I don't see why these are necessarily spurious.  Please give very
concrete examples, so as to make it crystal clear why they're spurious.

> This is both unexpected and incorrect given this function name and
> spec.

Unexpected to you, obviously, but I'm not convinced it's unexpected in
general (after all, I don't remember other bug-reports in this area) and
definitely not incorrect.  See the docstring of `load':

   Execute a file of Lisp code named FILE.
   First try FILE with `.elc' appended, then try with `.el',
   then try FILE unmodified (the exact suffixes in the exact order are
   determined by `load-suffixes').  Environment variable references in
   [...]

Of course, there's an ambiguity about how the search is performed,
w.r.t. to whether it does:

   (dolist (s suffixes) (dolist (d load-path) ...)))
or
   (dolist (d load-path) (dolist (s suffixes) ...)))

We do the second, so that a compiled file in a later directory does not
override a non-compiled file in an earlier directory.


        Stefan





  parent reply	other threads:[~2014-05-11 21:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-11 16:06 bug#17467: 24.3; locate-library returning spurious path Alex Kosorukoff
2014-05-11 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-11 17:38   ` Alex Kosorukoff
2014-05-11 17:46     ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-11 17:53       ` Alex Kosorukoff
2014-05-11 18:10         ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-11 18:55           ` Alex Kosorukoff
2014-05-11 22:55             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-12  0:41               ` Alex Kosorukoff
2014-05-11 17:37 ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-11 17:43   ` Alex Kosorukoff
2014-05-11 19:50 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-11 20:45   ` Alex Kosorukoff
2014-05-11 21:00     ` Alex Kosorukoff
2014-05-11 21:19     ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-11 22:31       ` Alex Kosorukoff
2014-05-11 21:56     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-05-12  0:20       ` Alex Kosorukoff
2014-05-12  0:32         ` Glenn Morris
2014-05-12  1:35           ` Alex Kosorukoff
2014-05-12  2:02             ` Alex Kosorukoff
2014-05-12  2:18         ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-12  4:36           ` Alex Kosorukoff
2014-05-12  6:39             ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-12 17:46               ` Alex Kosorukoff
2020-08-25 10:39           ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-08-25 14:22             ` Stefan Monnier
2020-08-25 14:25               ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-13  1:41             ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2014-05-15 19:39 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-05-15 23:57   ` Alex Kosorukoff

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