From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Very annoying Flymake regression in Emacs 26.1 Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 10:08:42 +0300 Message-ID: <83zi15mjut.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87o9hlub7t.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1526108847 12287 195.159.176.226 (12 May 2018 07:07:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 12 May 2018 07:07:27 +0000 (UTC) Cc: johnw@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?B?Sm/Do28gVMOhdm9yYQ==?= Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 12 09:07:23 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fHOck-000340-7e for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 May 2018 09:07:22 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52495 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fHOep-0002tn-EQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 12 May 2018 03:09:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46798) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fHOe9-0002rr-UV for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 May 2018 03:08:50 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fHOe9-0000fG-01 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 12 May 2018 03:08:49 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53640) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fHOe4-0000dy-7Y; Sat, 12 May 2018 03:08:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1531 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fHOe3-0004Op-NU; Sat, 12 May 2018 03:08:44 -0400 In-reply-to: <87o9hlub7t.fsf@gmail.com> (message from =?utf-8?B?Sm/Do28g?= =?utf-8?B?VMOhdm9yYQ==?= on Fri, 11 May 2018 22:35:50 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:225256 Archived-At: > From: João Távora > Date: Fri, 11 May 2018 22:35:50 +0100 > > 1. Navigate to a foo.c file > 2. Turn on M-x flymake-mode > 3. Because the legacy "proc" backend is active by default, flymake > calls it and it makes its usual foo_flymake.c copies before doing its > thing which is to call "CHK_SOURCES=foo_flymake.c make check-syntax" > 4. If there isn't such a target in the Makefile, or if there isn't any Makefile, > the backend reports a failure and flymake.el considers it disabled. > 5. Nothing wrong until here, the problem is that the foo_flymake.c in > step 3 is never cleaned up, and this starts littering the filesystem > everytime you visit a .c file. Is the above scenario the usual way of using Flymake, or is it some variation that could be rare? If it isn't rare, I wonder how come no one noticed until now that we are littering the filesystem with these files. Thanks.