GNU bug report logs - #42534
28.0.50; package-test-macro-compilation test fails on macOS

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Philipp <p.stephani2 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 18:36:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Merged with 37615

Found in versions 27.0.50, 28.0.50

Fixed in version 28.1

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #44 received at 42534 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 42534 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, 37615 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, bruce.connor.am <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#42534: 28.0.50; package-test-macro-compilation test fails
 on macOS
Date: Sat, 26 Dec 2020 23:00:35 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

> In my case, the problem was that MS-Windows (in the version I run
> here) produces short 8+3 alias file names for long directory names,
> the file name for temporary-file-directory didn't compare equal to
> what Emacs expected, exactly as on macOS; file-truename fixed that.

Ah, I see.  Apparently the Windows setup I'm using (for Emacs build
tests) isn't doing the 8+3 thing (Windows 10 with msys2/mingw shell).

Anyway, thanks for checking; closing this bug report.

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