Subject: Re: bug#37445: 27.0.50; Permission denied after make install

From: Tino Calancha <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2019 11:35:26 +0000 (UTC)

On Wed, 18 Sep 2019, Paul Eggert wrote:

> I installed the attached patch, which should fix the bug even when 
> PICKY_EACCES is nonzero. Boldly closing the bug report.

Hi Paul,
I think the commit message mentions the opposite of what is actually done 
in the code.

commit 30026cfe666e9647aeef73e26df5ffca2fa2c662
Author: Paul Eggert <[email-masked]>
Date:   Thu Sep 19 00:19:11 2019 -0700

     Default PICKY_ACCESS to false on non-MS

     * src/fileio.c (PICKY_EACCES) [!DOS_NT]: Default to false.

This is the code we have now:

#ifndef PICKY_EACCES
# ifdef DOS_NT
enum { PICKY_EACCES = false };
# else
enum { PICKY_EACCES = true };
# endif
#endif

This code starts Emacs on my Linux machine but it refuses to load my 
.emacs file:

M-: (load-file ".emacs")
Load error for /home/user_foo/.emacs:
(file-error Testing file Permission denied 
/home/ec2-user/soft/emacs-master/src)