Subject: bug#36598: 26.1; (error "‘/tmp/emacs1000’ is not a safe directory because it is a symlink")

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 13 Jul 2019 21:43:03 -0400

[email-masked] wrote:

> As far as I can see, this will only affect the edge case of someone
> running two versions of Emacs. I tend to do this (I run gnus in a
> standalone release emacs, and everything else in another emacs).

Note that running "make check" in master creates this link and leaves it
behind, causing this error to occur for any released Emacs version.
It's a bit irritating.