In GNU Emacs 22.0.92.24 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.8.20) of 2007-01-21 on trpaslik X server distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.70101000 configured using `configure '--with-gtk' '--prefix' '/usr/local' '--with-xpm' '--with-jpeg' '--with-png' '--with-gif''
$ mkdir /tmp/foo $ cd /tmp/foo $ emacs -Q # current directory is /tmp/foo M-x delete-directory RET RET # remove the current directory M-x woman RET ls RET # woman fails ***** File /usr/share/man/man1/ls.1.gz not found! ***** The error message is misleading, since the file does exist, and is readable. The cause of the problem is that call-process doesn't work if default-directory doesn't exist, and jka-compr.el uses call-process in a few places. This should probably be fixed in call-process (I can't use shell-command-on-region to pipe a region of a buffer through a shell command if default-directory doesn't exist, for example, and I'd like to be able to). Perhaps default-directory could default to the value of temporary-file-directory if it doesn't exist. Alternatively, a less far-ranging fix is to modify just jka-compr.el to bind default-directory while call-process is running: --- lisp/old/jka-compr.el 2006-12-05 07:15:38.000000000 +0100 +++ lisp/jka-compr.el 2007-01-22 04:50:57.000000000 +0100 @@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ ;; to discard the part we don't want. (let ((skip (/ beg jka-compr-dd-blocksize)) (err-file (jka-compr-make-temp-name)) + (default-directory (file-name-directory infile)) count) ;; Update PREFIX based on the text that we won't read in. (setq prefix (- beg (* skip jka-compr-dd-blocksize)) @@ -204,6 +205,7 @@ (defun jka-compr-call-process (prog message infile output temp args) + (let ((default-directory (file-name-directory infile))) (if jka-compr-use-shell (let ((err-file (jka-compr-make-temp-name)) @@ -243,6 +245,7 @@ (with-current-buffer temp (write-region (point-min) (point-max) output) (erase-buffer))))) + ) ;; Support for temp files. Much of this was inspired if not lifted Chris. _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug