Re: autoloads load file is wrong in Emacs 28 when using symlink

[Jiacai Liu]

Hi,

It has been some time since I file this issue, it seems somebody 
else also have this issue[1].

After some debugging, I find find-file-visit-truename must be nil 
inside autoload-find-generated-file in order to get the correct 
path.

I haven't found which commit introduce this issue, the last commit 
here is from larsmagne

- 
 https://github.com/emacs-mirror/emacs/commit/6f36b67e4146ef4610916b7903fd292e1308daf5#diff-92d5169948d378056770f5d1da4c8a70bd4fff0e9d92fe87fa21dd2a8303c13f

Maybe he can share some ideas about this issue.


[1] https://github.com/raxod502/straight.el/issues/701

autoloads-patch.el
Description: application/emacs-lisp

On Sat, Nov 06, 2021 at 09:40:21 PM +0800, Jiacai Liu wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I build emacs-28 branch with commit 3f998a3fc8 on macOS, it 
> seems autoloads load-file is different
> from emacs 27 when package-install. Take undo-tree as an 
> example:
>
> ;; 27
> (autoload 'undo-tree-mode "undo-tree" "some docstring" t nil)
>
> ;; 28
> (autoload 'undo-tree-mode 
> "../../../../../../.config/emacs/elpa/undo-tree-0.7.5/undo-tree" 
> "some
> docstring" t nil)
>
>
> After some debugging, I found this issue is related with 
> symlink.
>
> I usually put all my dotfiles in a git repo(emacs included), and 
> soft link to ~/.config/emacs, then
> load file is wrong as above.
> If I put config directly at ~/.config/emacs, load file is the 
> same as Emacs 27.