Subject: bug#64226: 30.0.50; emacs-lisp-native-compile-and-load permission error

From: Andrea Corallo <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 03 Jul 2023 04:50:53 -0400

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> From: No Wayman <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked]
>> Date: Sat, 01 Jul 2023 15:14:16 -0400
>> 
>> 
>> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:
>> 
>> > perhaps you could describe how to reproduce starting from "emacs
>> > -Q" (and loading any packages or features you need for the minimal
>> > reproduction recipe).  The way you were showing the problem until
>> > now obviously depends on your local setup, which is impossible to
>> > reproduce without knowing the details.
>> 
>> The instructions I gave here:
>> 
>> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2023-06/msg01224.html
>> 
>> reproduce the error on my end from emacs -Q with a minimal file.
>> To be crystal clear:
>> 
>> 1. Save the following file to $HOME/test.el (or any path where the 
>> user has write permissions):
>> 
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
>> ;; -*- lexical-binding: t; -*-
>> (defun +test () (message "PASS"))
>> --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---
>> 
>> 2. emacs -Q $HOME/test.el
>> 3. M-x emacs-lisp-native-compile-compile-and-load
>> 4. Error is printed to message buffer.
>
> Thanks.  I think Andrea couldn't reproduce this, but maybe he could
> try again.  (The error will only happen if the directory
> usr/lib/emacs/30.0.50/native-lisp is not writable by your user, so
> ensuring it's not writable should be part of the recipe.)

Just retried and can finally reproduce the error.  Will look at.

Thanks

  Andrea