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29.3; compile-goto-error eliminates symbolic links

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From: Anders Gustavsson <anders_r_gson <at> yahoo.com>
To: "bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
Subject: 29.3; compile-goto-error eliminates symbolic links
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 15:26:12 +0000 (UTC)

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Create a directory, a file and a shortcut in the file system:

cd
mkdir -p path/to/long/directory/in/file/system
echo "hello" > path/to/long/directory/in/file/system/file
ln -s path/to/long/directory/in/file/system/ shortcut

In emacs

C-x C-f shortcut
M-x grep <ret> hello * <ret>

in the output mouse-1 on

file 1:hello

Then type: C-x C-b

Then you see that the filename of the file found in the grep output is 
~/path/to/long/directory/in/file/system/file

not ~/shortcut/file as you would have expected, and how it was before in
emacs version 27.1. Same thing happens in emacs 29.4.

I fixed this bug by removing two calls to file-truename in the
function compilation-find-file-1 and one call to the same function in
compilation-find-file (both functions in lisp/progmodes/compile.el)

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 'configure --prefix=/opt/emacs'

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Message #8 received at 75363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Anders Gustavsson <anders_r_gson <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 75363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#75363: 29.3; compile-goto-error eliminates symbolic links
Date: Sat, 04 Jan 2025 21:03:19 +0200

> Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2025 15:26:12 +0000 (UTC)
> From:  Anders Gustavsson via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> Create a directory, a file and a shortcut in the file system:
> 
> cd
> mkdir -p path/to/long/directory/in/file/system
> echo "hello" > path/to/long/directory/in/file/system/file
> ln -s path/to/long/directory/in/file/system/ shortcut
> 
> In emacs
> 
> C-x C-f shortcut
> M-x grep <ret> hello * <ret>
> 
> in the output mouse-1 on
> 
> file 1:hello
> 
> Then type: C-x C-b
> 
> Then you see that the filename of the file found in the grep output is 
> ~/path/to/long/directory/in/file/system/file
> 
> not ~/shortcut/file as you would have expected, and how it was before in
> emacs version 27.1. Same thing happens in emacs 29.4.

I think this is already fixed in Emacs 30, where it only resolves
symlinks if the shortcut name cannot be found by find-file.

Can you try the latest pretest of Emacs 30.1?  Its tarball is here:

  https://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/emacs-30.0.93.tar.xz

Message #11 received at 75363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Anders Gustavsson <anders_r_gson <at> yahoo.com>
To: "75363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org" <75363 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
Subject: already fixed
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 06:24:28 +0000 (UTC)

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Sorry for reporting something that has been fixed already.
I tested 30.0.93, and the new function compilation--expand-fn in
compile.el works fine for me. Thank you!

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Message #16 received at 75363-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Anders Gustavsson <anders_r_gson <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 75363-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#75363: already fixed
Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2025 11:16:51 +0200

> Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 06:24:28 +0000 (UTC)
> From:  Anders Gustavsson via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> Sorry for reporting something that has been fixed already.
> I tested 30.0.93, and the new function compilation--expand-fn in
> compile.el works fine for me. Thank you!

Thanks, closing.

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