GNU bug report logs - #43858
28.0.50; [feature/native-comp] Missing eln cache not created

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Andrew Whatson <whatson <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 00:02:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 28.0.50

Done: Andrea Corallo <akrl <at> sdf.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Andrew Whatson <whatson <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 28.0.50; [feature/native-comp] Missing eln cache not created
Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2020 10:01:23 +1000

After removing ~/.emacs.d/eln-cache, running "emacs -q" starts up with
the error "native-compile-async: Wrong type argument: stringp, nil".
This is caused by `comp-el-to-eln-filename' returning nil due to no
writeable eln cache directory being found.

I think we should attempt to create the cache directories if they're
missing, and have a better error if there is *really* no writeable
cache directory.
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