Subject: Re: bug#55743: 28.1.50; No directory error in comp-run-async-workers

From: Juri Linkov <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2022 09:13:14 +0300

>> >> and why comp-run-async-workers tries to run a process in such arbitrary invalid dirs.
>> >
>> > It is not comp-run-async-workers that does it, it's the low-level
>> > infrastructure in subroutines of make-process: it makes sure the
>> > directory in which the process will run is valid, and if it isn't
>> > signals an error.
>>
>> Shouldn't native compilation run in the directory where the emacs
>> source files are located instead of running in the default directory
>> of an arbitrary buffer that might be invalid?
>
> No, because native compilation could be invoked to compile a file that
> has nothing to do with the Emacs source tree, e.g., some file of the
> user or some 3rd-party package installed in some arbitrary place.

Still, shouldn't it run compilation in the same directory
where that file is located?  Isn't this better than running
compilation in a random dir from a random buffer?