GNU bug report logs - #17467
24.3; locate-library returning spurious path

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Alex Kosorukoff <alex <at> 3form.com>

Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 16:51:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: patch

Found in version 24.3

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #8 received at 17467 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Alex Kosorukoff <alex <at> 3form.com>
Cc: 17467 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#17467: 24.3; locate-library returning spurious path
Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 20:03:40 +0300

> From: Alex Kosorukoff <alex <at> 3form.com>
> Date: Sun, 11 May 2014 09:06:10 -0700
> 
> locate-library incorrectly generates a set of suffixes to extend the
> base library name (".elc" ".elc.gz" ".el" ".el.gz" "" ".gz"), while it
> should be just (".elc" ".elc.gz" ".el" ".el.gz") when nosuffix is
> nil. This leads to spurious paths found, like name.gz. I found
> this issue because (locate-library "tramp") was returning
> "/home/alex/.emacs.d/trump" not "../lisp/net/trum.elc". The workaround
> is (locate-file "tramp" load-path (get-load-suffixes))

What if I say

  (locate-library "tramp.el")

Shouldn't it be able to find tramp.el.gz then?
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