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Emacs `compile' command does not handle remote (over TRAMP) file name correctly

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Message #17 received at 38718 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
Cc: 38718 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dgbulk <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#38718: Emacs `compile' command does not handle remote (over
 TRAMP) file name correctly
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 16:34:31 +0200

> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus <at> gmx.de>
> Cc: dgbulk <at> gmail.com,  38718 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 23 Dec 2019 15:14:34 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > If these issues cause sever problems on Catalina, we could suggest
> > people to apply a few patches to their own builds, and hope that
> > binary distributions pick up those patches.
> 
> Agreed. I could prepare a patch on top of Emacs 26.3.
> 
> But I don't know how to "suggest people to apply a few patches to their
> own builds". Is there a canonical way?

I suggest to have the patches posted in the relevant bug reports, and
have the problem description in etc/PROBLEMS which mentions the bug
numbers and the availability of patches for Emacs versions before 27.

Thanks.

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