GNU bug report logs - #52292
29.0.50; when ~/.emacs.d is a relative symlink to ~/foo/bar, (setq find-file-visit-truename t) causes package-install to generate incorrect autoloads

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Jiacai Liu <hello <at> liujiacai.net>
Cc: 52292 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: autoloads load file is wrong in Emacs 28 when using symlink
Date: Fri, 10 Dec 2021 01:35:38 +0100

Jiacai Liu <hello <at> liujiacai.net> writes:

>> Can you report the problem with `M-x report-emacs-bug'
>
> After some search, I found someone else already did this.
> - https://lists.gnu.org/r/bug-gnu-emacs/2021-12/msg00376.html
>
> If it helps, below is the step I use to reproduce this issue:
>
> 1. mkdir an empty dir, and soft link to emacs config dir
> `mkdir /tmp/emacs-conf && ln -s /tmp/emacs-conf $HOME/.emacs.d`
> 2. (setq find-file-visit-truename t)
> 3. package-install undo-tree
>
> Then open generated autoloads file for undo-tree under
> $HOME/.emacs.d/undo-tree-${version}/undo-tree-autoloads.el,
> the content is something like
>
> (autoload 'undo-tree-mode
> "../../../../../Users/${username}/.emacs.d/elpa/undo-tree-0.7.5/undo-tree"
> "long docsting" t nil)
>
> In Emacs 27, the content is
> (autoload 'undo-tree-mode "undo-tree" "long docsting" t nil)

(Re-sent to land in the bug tracker.)

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