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From: Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
Cc: 40099@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#40099: 28.0.50; [feature/native-comp] Different working dir of .eln files is not expected by pdf-tools
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2020 23:48:37 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sghet1uy.fsf@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr1xpoib9.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

> We could lie (set `load-file-name` to point to the source file, for
> example) or introduce some function to go from the `load-file-name` to
> the "intended" origin (something like the name of the source file) and
> update all packages to use that function?

Is it even possible for a package to get the source file location
without relying on load-file-name pointing to the same folder with the
source file? I mean using the currently available Emacs functionality.

Best,
Ihor

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> Great I think the problem is clear, pdf-tools is using `load-file-name'
>> as a way to obtain `pdf-tools-directory' but this is false assumption
>> for the eln folder directory we have arranged.
>
> Good point, indeed.  This problem already exists in theory in some
> systems (such as Debian in the past) where byte-compiled files were
> placed in a different directory (for the case where several major
> versions of Emacs are used, with packages re-compiled separately for
> each major version).
>
> But yes, this will bite much more often.
>
> We could lie (set `load-file-name` to point to the source file, for
> example) or introduce some function to go from the `load-file-name` to
> the "intended" origin (something like the name of the source file) and
> update all packages to use that function?
>
>> Adding Stephane in cc to get an optinion on this.
>
> I assume that was a typo, I didn't see nay Stephane in the Cc.
>
>
>         Stefan
>

-- 
Ihor Radchenko,
PhD,
Center for Advancing Materials Performance from the Nanoscale (CAMP-nano)
State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, China
Email: yantar92@gmail.com, ihor_radchenko@alumni.sutd.edu.sg





  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-04-08 15:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-17  6:30 bug#40099: 28.0.50; [feature/native-comp] Different working dir of .eln files is not expected by pdf-tools Ihor Radchenko
2020-03-18 11:05 ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-18 12:37   ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-03-18 12:59     ` Andrea Corallo
2020-03-18 14:27       ` Stefan Monnier
2020-03-18 15:54         ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-03-18 16:57         ` Andrea Corallo
2020-04-08 15:48         ` Ihor Radchenko [this message]
2020-04-08 18:22           ` Andrea Corallo
2020-04-08 18:54             ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-04-13  9:58               ` Andrea Corallo
2020-04-14  0:58                 ` Ihor Radchenko
2020-04-14  7:28                   ` Andrea Corallo

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