GNU bug report logs - #12508
use absolute paths, not ../.. in *Compile-Log*

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From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: use absolute paths, not ../.. in *Compile-Log*
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 03:02:21 +0800

Please use absolute paths, not ../.. relative paths in *Compile-Log* buffer,

../../usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-com.el:Warning: Use
    `with-current-buffer' rather than save-excursion+set-buffer
../../usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-com.el:Warning: (lambda (x)
    ...) quoted with ' rather than with #'

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From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Cc: 12508 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12508: use absolute paths, not ../.. in *Compile-Log*
Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2012 13:43:27 +0800

jidanni <at> jidanni.org writes:

> Please use absolute paths, not ../.. relative paths in *Compile-Log* buffer,
>
> ../../usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-com.el:Warning: Use
>     `with-current-buffer' rather than save-excursion+set-buffer
> ../../usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-com.el:Warning: (lambda (x)
>     ...) quoted with ' rather than with #'

I can't reproduce this, since there are insufficient details given.
M-x byte-compile-file RET does not use ../.. relative file names.

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From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: cyd <at> gnu.org
Cc: 12508 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12508: use absolute paths, not ../.. in *Compile-Log*
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 09:37:02 +0800

All I know is Glen made a change to now show file paths.
But they are now coming up relative.

All I know is I get this weird pop-up *Compile-Log* buffer with those
warnings here on Debian with emacs-snapshot and the Debian (old) bbdb.

CY> I can't reproduce this, since there are insufficient details given.
CY> M-x byte-compile-file RET does not use ../.. relative file names.

I didn't use byte-compile-file, all I did was
$ emacs -f gnus

Message #14 received at 12508 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org>
To: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Cc: 12508 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12508: use absolute paths, not ../.. in *Compile-Log*
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 10:59:59 +0800

jidanni <at> jidanni.org writes:

> All I know is Glen made a change to now show file paths.
> But they are now coming up relative.

I don't see why that's a problem.

> CY> I can't reproduce this, since there are insufficient details given.
> CY> M-x byte-compile-file RET does not use ../.. relative file names.
>
> I didn't use byte-compile-file, all I did was
> $ emacs -f gnus

Nope, can't reproduce that here.  Maybe the *Compile-Log* buffer is
caused by Gnus byte compiling uncompiled library files (most likely due
to a faulty installation).  But in any case there's no problem with
having relative file names.

Message #21 received at 12508 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: cyd <at> gnu.org,rgm <at> gnu.org
Cc: 12508 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12508: use absolute paths, not ../.. in *Compile-Log*
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 11:12:25 +0800

>>>>> "CY" == Chong Yidong <cyd <at> gnu.org> writes:
CY> But in any case there's no problem with
CY> having relative file names.

Glenn, can you please make it use absolute paths ! Please.

Message #24 received at 12508 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
To: cyd <at> gnu.org,rgm <at> gnu.org
Cc: 12508 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12508: use absolute paths, not ../.. in *Compile-Log*
Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2012 17:20:26 +0800

Also the obligatory "../.." don't add any value

../../usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-com.el:Warning: Use...

as that is just the root of the file system anyway.

$ dlocate bbdb-com.el
bbdb: /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-com.el

Message #27 received at 12508-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: jidanni <at> jidanni.org
Cc: 12508-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#12508: use absolute paths, not ../.. in *Compile-Log*
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:46:16 -0400

> Also the obligatory "../.." don't add any value
> ../../usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/bbdb/lisp/bbdb-com.el:Warning: Use...

I'm not sure how we can get this kind of result, but I think I've
installed a patch which should avoid those cases.


        Stefan

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