[BUG] .dir-locals.el broken links on cygwin

[BUG] .dir-locals.el broken links on cygwin

[Vladimir Alexiev]

Some of the .dir-locals.el files in the distribution are 
symbolic links to another.
On cygwin they come out as LNK files.
Emacs tries to load such LNK file and fails.
I had to remove these files to be able to edit orgmode elisp files.

Perhaps there is a way to make emacs on cygwin interpret LNK as links,
then it should be mentioned in the installation instructions.

Otherwise (and I think better), the build process could copy .dir-locals.el
from the master dir to the slave dirs

Re: [BUG] .dir-locals.el broken links on cygwin

[Vladimir Alexiev]

> Some of the .dir-locals.el files in the distribution are 
> symbolic links to another. On cygwin they come out as LNK files.

The error I get is 
Directory-local variables error: (wrong-type-argument listp !<symlink>  \.)

Re: [BUG] .dir-locals.el broken links on cygwin

[Jambunathan K]

Vladimir Alexiev <vladimir@sirma.bg> writes:

>> Some of the .dir-locals.el files in the distribution are 
>> symbolic links to another. On cygwin they come out as LNK files.
>
> The error I get is 
> Directory-local variables error: (wrong-type-argument listp !<symlink>
> \.)

(Resent)

I find the symlink very problematic. I normally copy the contents of
.dir-settings.el' to .dir-locals.el.

Another troubled soul,
Jambunathan K.


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Re: [BUG] .dir-locals.el broken links on cygwin

[Jambunathan K]

Vladimir Alexiev <vladimir@sirma.bg> writes:

>> Some of the .dir-locals.el files in the distribution are 
>> symbolic links to another. On cygwin they come out as LNK files.
>
> The error I get is 
> Directory-local variables error: (wrong-type-argument listp !<symlink>  \.)

I find the symlink very problematic. I normally copy the contents of
.dir-settings.el' to .dir-locals.el.

Another troubled soul,
Jambunathan K.


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Re: Re: [BUG] .dir-locals.el broken links on cygwin

[Bastien]

Hi Vladimir and Jambunathan,

Jambunathan K <kjambunathan@gmail.com> writes:

> Vladimir Alexiev <vladimir@sirma.bg> writes:
>
>>> Some of the .dir-locals.el files in the distribution are 
>>> symbolic links to another. On cygwin they come out as LNK files.
>>
>> The error I get is 
>> Directory-local variables error: (wrong-type-argument listp !<symlink>  \.)
>
> I find the symlink very problematic. I normally copy the contents of
> .dir-settings.el' to .dir-locals.el.

.dir-locals.el is now a copy of .dir-settings.el, which should prevent
this problem.

Thanks,

-- 
 Bastien