[debbugs-tracker] bug#28264: closed (Accessing source directory through symlink produces false warnings)

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> Accessing source directory through symlink produces false warnings
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> Mon, 28 Aug 2017 14:25:20 -0400
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> Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/)
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> Package: emacs
> Version: 26.0.50
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> Current master (cd0360f) on rhel7.
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> Emacs sources are in (eg) /tmp/emacs/git/master
> cd ~
> ln -s /tmp/emacs/git/master
> ~/master/src/emacs -Q
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> This results in the following new, spurious warnings:
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>     Warning: arch-dependent data dir '/:/tmp/emacs/git/master/lib-src/':
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>     Warning: Lisp directory '/:/tmp/emacs/git/master/lisp':
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> I would suspect recent changes to file name / symlink handling.
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--- Begin Message --- Subject: Re: bug#28264: Accessing source directory through symlink produces false warnings Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2017 21:57:15 -0700 User-agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.2.1 Thanks for the bug report. I reproduced the problem and installed the attached patch to fix it. It strikes me, though, that the code still won't work in other cases (e.g., symlinks containing ":"), and that Emacs probably has other instances of confusion between how it treats symlinks and how the OS treats them. I'll CC: this to Michael to give him a heads-up about this particular issue, as I'm not really up to speed on magic file names.

0001-Silence-false-alarms-for-symlinks-to-sources.patch
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