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From: Andrea Corallo via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: Andrew Whatson <whatson@gmail.com>
Cc: 43858@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#43858: 28.0.50; [feature/native-comp] Missing eln cache not created
Date: Thu, 08 Oct 2020 07:42:25 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xjftuv5qi3i.fsf@sdf.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPE069eGwryWeu5xeVRDU0XaYmiD6uwfOi1LA1jDQwba5Dxi5Q@mail.gmail.com> (Andrew Whatson's message of "Thu, 8 Oct 2020 10:01:23 +1000")

Andrew Whatson <whatson@gmail.com> writes:

> After removing ~/.emacs.d/eln-cache, running "emacs -q" starts up with
> the error "native-compile-async: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil".
> This is caused by `comp-el-to-eln-filename' returning nil due to no
> writeable eln cache directory being found.
>
> I think we should attempt to create the cache directories if they're
> missing, and have a better error if there is *really* no writeable
> cache directory.

Hi Andrew,

agree, that's acutally what we have been doing before I broke it two
days ago with 4a1bb46260 :)

c3bc348f5e * Fix failure when eln-cache is removed (introduced by 4a1bb46260)

fix this for me. Could you please confirm?

Thanks

  Andrea





  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-08  7:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-08  0:01 bug#43858: 28.0.50; [feature/native-comp] Missing eln cache not created Andrew Whatson
2020-10-08  7:42 ` Andrea Corallo via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors [this message]
2020-10-09  4:47   ` Andrew Whatson
2020-10-09  6:32     ` Andrea Corallo via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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