bug#19657: 25.0.50; Test failures in Emacs master, can't figure out what I'm doing wrong

[Glenn Morris]

Glenn Morris wrote:

> mkdir $HOME/foo
> TMPDIR=$HOME/foo make package-test            # fails

I think this is due to with-package-test's manipulation of HOME in
process-environment. The problem can be summarized as:

(file-truename (abbreviate-file-name "/home/rgm/foo"))
    ->  "/home/rgm/foo"

(let ((process-environment (cons "HOME=/home/rgm/bar" process-environment)))
  (file-truename (abbreviate-file-name "/home/rgm/foo")))
    ->  "/home/rgm/bar/foo"

Because abbreviated-home-dir is cached the first time it is used.
And find-file-noselect does various cycles of abbreviate/expand/truename.
So calling find-file-noselect after changing HOME will mess up for
files under the new HOME.

So basically if you want to change HOME, remember to reset
abbreviated-home-dir as well, else get various odd problems.

Yuck.

Anyway, the following patch seems to fix this specific case.

(Maybe abbreviated-home-dir should either be removed, or check that HOME
hasn't changed since it was set.)

*** a/test/automated/package-test.el
--- b/test/automated/package-test.el
***************
*** 91,96 ****
--- 91,97 ----
    `(let* ((package-test-user-dir (make-temp-file "pkg-test-user-dir-" t))
            (process-environment (cons (format "HOME=%s" package-test-user-dir)
                                       process-environment))
+           (abbreviated-home-dir)
            (package-user-dir package-test-user-dir)
            (package-archives `(("gnu" . ,package-test-data-dir)))
            (old-yes-no-defn (symbol-function 'yes-or-no-p))
***************
*** 340,346 ****
       (should (search-forward "simple-single is an installed package." nil t))
       (should (search-forward
                (format "Status: Installed in `%s/' (unsigned)."
!                       (expand-file-name "simple-single-1.3" package-user-dir))
                nil t))
       (should (search-forward "Version: 1.3" nil t))
       (should (search-forward "Summary: A single-file package with no 
dependencies"
--- 341,348 ----
       (should (search-forward "simple-single is an installed package." nil t))
       (should (search-forward
                (format "Status: Installed in `%s/' (unsigned)."
!                       (abbreviate-file-name
!                        (expand-file-name "simple-single-1.3" 
package-user-dir)))
                nil t))
       (should (search-forward "Version: 1.3" nil t))
       (should (search-forward "Summary: A single-file package with no 
dependencies"
***************
*** 410,416 ****
         (should (search-forward "signed-good is an installed package." nil t))
         (should (search-forward
                (format "Status: Installed in `%s/'."
!                       (expand-file-name "signed-good-1.0" package-user-dir))
                nil t))))))
  
  
--- 412,419 ----
         (should (search-forward "signed-good is an installed package." nil t))
         (should (search-forward
                (format "Status: Installed in `%s/'."
!                         (abbreviate-file-name
!                          (expand-file-name "signed-good-1.0" 
package-user-dir)))
                nil t))))))