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27.2; byte-recompile-directory a directory called "~"

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From: Al Haji-Ali <abdo.haji.ali <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 27.2; byte-recompile-directory a directory called "~"
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 15:31:48 +0100

The following commands

mkdir -p /tmp/test/\~
emacs -Q /tmp/test
M-x byte-recompile-directory RET RET

Causes the home directory to be compiled instead of just directories inside /tmp/test as I would expect.

In GNU Emacs 27.2 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.30, cairo version 1.15.12)
 of 2021-05-18 built on lxstaff02
Repository revision: deef5efafb70f4b171265b896505b92b6eef24e6
Repository branch: HEAD
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12004000
System Description: CentOS Linux 7 (Core)

Configured using:
 'configure --prefix=/home/ah180/.local/ --with-json --with-modules
 --with-harfbuzz --with-compress-install --with-threads
 --with-included-regex --with-zlib --with-sound=alsa --without-gconf
 --with-mailutils --with-xft --with-xml2 --with-cairo --with-gconf
 --with-xwidgets --without-toolkit-scroll-bars 'CFLAGS=-O3 -mtune=native
 -march=native -fomit-frame-pointer
 -I/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/9/include/
 -L/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-linux-gnu/9'
 PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/home/ah180/.local/lib/pkgconfig:/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/:/usr/share/pkgconfig/
 CPPFLAGS=-I/home/ah180/.local/include LDFLAGS=-L/home/ah180/.local/lib'

Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG CAIRO SOUND DBUS GSETTINGS GLIB NOTIFY
INOTIFY ACL LIBSELINUX GNUTLS LIBXML2 FREETYPE HARFBUZZ ZLIB GTK3 X11
XDBE XIM MODULES THREADS XWIDGETS PDUMPER GMP

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  value of $LANG: en_GB.utf8
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Message #8 received at 49758 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Al Haji-Ali <abdo.haji.ali <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 49758 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#49758: 27.2; byte-recompile-directory a directory called "~"
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 18:11:22 +0200

Al Haji-Ali <abdo.haji.ali <at> gmail.com> writes:

> The following commands
>
> mkdir -p /tmp/test/\~
> emacs -Q /tmp/test
> M-x byte-recompile-directory RET RET
>
> Causes the home directory to be compiled instead of just directories inside /tmp/test as I would expect.

Yup.  This should now be fixed in Emacs 28.

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