Re: [PATCH] org-macs: Fix incorrect use of relative paths in org-compile-file

[Ihor Radchenko]

Roshan Shariff <roshan.shariff@gmail.com> writes:

> * org-macs.el (org-compile-file, org-compile-file-commands): Avoid
> converting the source path to be relative to the default-directory,
> which breaks for absolute source paths when the current directory is a
> symlink.
>
> Commit 5a8a1d4ff [1] changed org-compile-file to use
> `file-relative-name` for the source argument. This was intended to fix
> bug [2] by expanding ~ directories in the source path, like a shell.

Thanks for the report and for providing a detailed explanation with a
patch!

I have a few comments.

First, minor one: please put two spaces between sentences in the commit
message. It is our convention.

> -         (output (expand-file-name (concat (file-name-base source) "." ext)
> -                                   (file-name-directory source)))
> +         (output (file-name-concat (file-name-directory source)
> +                                   (concat (file-name-base source) "." ext)))

`file-name-concat' is only available since Emacs 28.
Please use `org-file-name-concat'.

> -                          (?f . ,(shell-quote-argument relative-name))
> +                          (?f . ,(shell-quote-argument source))

This will break user expectations.
The PROCESS argument can, for example, be `org-latex-pdf-process', which
promises that "%f in the command will be replaced by the relative file
name" (see the docstring).

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