GNU bug report logs - #59334
29.0.50; loading native-compiled init file sets user-init-file to .eln

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Message #32 received at 59334 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 59334 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, akrl <at> sdf.org
Subject: Re: bug#59334: 29.0.50; loading native-compiled init file sets
 user-init-file to .eln
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 09:19:00 +0200

> From: Juanma Barranquero <lekktu <at> gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2022 03:25:34 +0100
> Cc: Andrea Corallo <akrl <at> sdf.org>, 59334 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> If you use ~/.emacs instead of ~.emacs.d/init.el, and happen to compile .emacs, Emacs loads .emacs.elc
> (as it has always done), but the native compiler does *not* know how to compile it (because it does not know
> how to locate its source), so it gives a warning:
> 
> 022-11-18 02:54:01+0100 Warning (comp): Cannot look up eln file as no source file was found for
> d:/Home/.emacs.elc
> 
> and then it assigns the user-init-file to warnings.el!
> 
> ELISP> user-init-file
> "d:/Home/.emacs.d/native/29.0.50-a4a10996/warnings-28e75f4d-02da775e.eln"
> 
> which, if my patch is installed, gets converted to its source file:
> 
> ELISP> user-init-file
> "d:/Devel/emacs/repo/trunk/lisp/emacs-lisp/warnings.el"
> 
> So this is a double bug for anyone compiling their .emacs: they will always get a warning, and an erroneous
> user-init-file.
> 
> Do you want me to file this as a separate bug?

Yes, please.

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