GNU bug report logs - #31305
27.0.50; Symlinks recognized as dirs on macOS <10.9

Previous Next

Full log

Message #42 received at 31305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: David Caldwell <david <at> porkrind.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>, Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
Cc: 31305 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, david+emacsformacosx <at> porkrind.org,
 Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>, Jimmy Yuen Ho Wong <wyuenho <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#31305: 27.0.50; Symlinks recognized as dirs
Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 16:17:22 -0700

[Message part 1 (text/plain, inline)]

On 5/18/18 10:16 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 05/18/2018 03:22 AM, David Caldwell wrote:
>> $ src/emacs -Q -batch -eval '(message "%S" (file-name-completion "pass"
>> "."))'
>> "passwd"
> 
> Thanks for checking that it works on OS X 10.10.
> 
>> Since this doesn't seem to match your hypothesis, do you still want me
>> to try it with the "/./" patch you sent?
> 
> I wouldn't bother. If the bug is fixed in OS X 10.10 and Apple itself
> doesn't support older systems, then we shouldn't need to worry about
> this bug upstream. I suggest building Emacs for OS X 10.10, recommending
> 10.10 (or later) builds to users, and warning that there may be glitches
> if people use builds for older systems. To document this I installed the
> attached into the emacs-26 branch.

Ok. So I'll start building on at least 10.10. I think Alan made some
changes so that we can actually build on the latest OS and set it so
it'll run on older versions and maybe I start doing that soon since it
should vastly simplify the build process.

-David

[signature.asc (application/pgp-signature, attachment)]

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.