From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wayne Harris via "Emacs development discussions." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: on emacs 28 for windows Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 23:19:33 -0300 Message-ID: <86y2lymbwq.fsf@protonmail.com> References: <86imd6dxzf.fsf@protonmail.com> <834koq3p3w.fsf@gnu.org> <4a6c923c96958966cacfc4c8a20a2bcd@russet.org.uk> <86o8mxtmxv.fsf@protonmail.com> <83pn7d2uuf.fsf@gnu.org> <86d03cubnc.fsf@protonmail.com> <83bliw3fz7.fsf@gnu.org> <87zh6gjti0.fsf@russet.org.uk> <86v9h4oukr.fsf@protonmail.com> Reply-To: Wayne Harris Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="37844"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:AsrGXdJXLfk3B6C8WORPZGlOJyU= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sat Aug 29 04:21:06 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kBqUL-0009iW-BS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2020 04:21:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53170 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kBqUK-0000Rf-Dr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2020 22:21:04 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:46658) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kBqTr-0008S0-6x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2020 22:20:35 -0400 Original-Received: from static.214.254.202.116.clients.your-server.de ([116.202.254.214]:36846 helo=ciao.gmane.io) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kBqTp-00075m-F3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Aug 2020 22:20:34 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kBqTm-00099u-Ip for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 29 Aug 2020 04:20:30 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/08/28 22:05:02 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Spam_score_int: -13 X-Spam_score: -1.4 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.4 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.25, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.25, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:254373 Archived-At: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk writes: > No worries. I would be interested in find out how the paths get into > the distributions as you have found but I suspect that I have little > chance of doing so without a reproduction. Glad the problem has gone > away. It turns out this problem is not my fault actually. Here's how to simulate it. Download https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/windows/emacs-27/emacs-27.1-i686-no-deps.zip (Why 27.1? It seems to affect 27 upwards.) Unpack it. Run emacs -Q. --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- C:\sys\emacs-27-no-deps\emacs-27.1-x86_64\bin>emacs -Q --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- No problem. Now create a directory called lib-src at the source of your GNU emacs installation, then run emacs -Q. You'll get: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- C:\sys\emacs-27-no-deps\emacs-27.1-x86_64>mkdir lib-src C:\sys\emacs-27-no-deps\emacs-27.1-x86_64>cd bin C:\sys\emacs-27-no-deps\emacs-27.1-x86_64\bin>emacs -Q Warning: Lisp directory 'c:/msys64/home/Administrator/emacs-build/git/emacs-27.1/lisp': No such file or directory C:\sys\emacs-27-no-deps\emacs-27.1-x86_64\bin> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- There is something in the emacs source code that is sensitive to the existence of the directory lib-src.