GNU bug report logs - #44128
[feature/native-comp]; When invoking a symlink to the 'emacs' binary Emacs fails to start

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Jonas Bernoulli <jonas <at> bernoul.li>

Date: Wed, 21 Oct 2020 22:00:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 47801

Found in version 28.0.50

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
Cc: jonas <at> bernoul.li, wilde <at> sha-bang.de, 47800 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dario.gjorgjevski <at> gmail.com, 44128 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, akrl <at> sdf.org
Subject: bug#44128: bug#47800: bug#44128: [feature/native-comp] When invoking a symlink to the 'emacs' binary Emacs fails to start
Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 11:09:56 +0300

> From: Phil Sainty <psainty <at> orcon.net.nz>
> Cc: jonas <at> bernoul.li, wilde <at> sha-bang.de, 47800 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>  dario.gjorgjevski <at> gmail.com, 44128 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, akrl <at> sdf.org
> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2021 19:40:20 +1200
> 
> $ (for dir in / /home /home/phil /home/phil/bin /home/phil/emacs /home/phil/emacs/native-comp/usr/local/bin /home/phil/emacs/native-comp/shallow-repository/src /tmp; do echo; echo $dir; cd $dir; for E in emacs emacs-native-comp emacs-28.0.50 emacs-native-comp-28.0.50 /home/phil/emacs/native-comp/usr/local/bin/emacs /home/phil/emacs/native-comp/usr/local/bin/emacs-28.0.50 emacs-native-comp-uninstalled /home/phil/emacs/native-comp/shallow-repository/src/emacs; do $E --batch --eval "(prin1 comp-eln-load-path)"; echo " -- $E"; done; done)
> 
> Nothing failed, and for every directory the output was the same:
> 
> ("/home/phil/.emacs.d/eln-cache/" "/home/phil/emacs/native-comp/usr/local/lib/emacs/28.0.50/native-lisp/") -- emacs
> ("/home/phil/.emacs.d/eln-cache/" "/home/phil/emacs/native-comp/usr/local/lib/emacs/28.0.50/native-lisp/") -- emacs-native-comp
> ("/home/phil/.emacs.d/eln-cache/" "/home/phil/emacs/native-comp/usr/local/lib/emacs/28.0.50/native-lisp/") -- emacs-28.0.50
> ("/home/phil/.emacs.d/eln-cache/" "/home/phil/emacs/native-comp/usr/local/lib/emacs/28.0.50/native-lisp/") -- emacs-native-comp-28.0.50
> ("/home/phil/.emacs.d/eln-cache/" "/home/phil/emacs/native-comp/usr/local/lib/emacs/28.0.50/native-lisp/") -- /home/phil/emacs/native-comp/usr/local/bin/emacs
> ("/home/phil/.emacs.d/eln-cache/" "/home/phil/emacs/native-comp/usr/local/lib/emacs/28.0.50/native-lisp/") -- /home/phil/emacs/native-comp/usr/local/bin/emacs-28.0.50
> ("/home/phil/.emacs.d/eln-cache/" "/home/phil/emacs/native-comp/shallow-repository/native-lisp/") -- emacs-native-comp-uninstalled
> ("/home/phil/.emacs.d/eln-cache/" "/home/phil/emacs/native-comp/shallow-repository/native-lisp/") -- /home/phil/emacs/native-comp/shallow-repository/src/emacs

Thanks for testing, this looks very promising.
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