bug#59795: 30.0.50; locate-user-emacs-file refer to relative path with --init-directory is passed as relative path

[Tommaso Rossi]

When launching emacs with --init-directory option set to a relative path, I noticed that locate-user-emacs-file refers to a relative path.

This means that every library that uses that function spawns files in visited directories instead that in the init-directory.

1) Open shell in home (~)

2) emacs -Q --init-directory .my-emacs.d
3) C-x C-f ~/other-directory RET

4) M-: (locate-user-emacs-file "some-file") RET

result: ~/other-directory/.my-emacs.d/some-file

expected: ~/.my-emacs.d/some-file

It happens both starting with -Q or not.

The problem does not happen when an absolute path is passed as --init-directory option argument.

Perhaps the user-emacs-directory should be parsed as absolute path at startup?

Thanks,

Tommaso

In GNU Emacs 30.0.50 (build 1, x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version

 3.24.33, cairo version 1.16.0) of 2022-11-30 built on xubuntu-new

Repository revision: 26c2ebd0ddcea2c64715dbb33b21e04e4e3dc136

Repository branch: master

Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.12101003

System Description: Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS

Configured using:

 'configure --with-cairo --with-modules --with-gnutls

 --with-native-compilation --with-json --with-harfbuzz

 --with-imagemagick --with-jpeg --with-png --with-rsvg --with-tiff'

Configured features:

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XIM XINPUT2 XPM GTK3 ZLIB

Important settings:

  value of $LC_MONETARY: it_IT.UTF-8

  value of $LC_NUMERIC: it_IT.UTF-8

  value of $LC_TIME: it_IT.UTF-8

  value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8

  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix

Major mode: Lisp Interaction

Minor modes in effect:

  tooltip-mode: t

  global-eldoc-mode: t

  eldoc-mode: t

  show-paren-mode: t

  electric-indent-mode: t

  mouse-wheel-mode: t

  tool-bar-mode: t

  menu-bar-mode: t

  file-name-shadow-mode: t

  global-font-lock-mode: t

  font-lock-mode: t

  blink-cursor-mode: t

  line-number-mode: t

  indent-tabs-mode: t

  transient-mark-mode: t

  auto-composition-mode: t

  auto-encryption-mode: t

  auto-compression-mode: t

Load-path shadows:

None found.

Features:

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mm-encode mail-parse rfc2231 mailabbrev gmm-utils mailheader sendmail

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fontset image regexp-opt fringe tabulated-list replace newcomment

text-mode lisp-mode prog-mode register page tab-bar menu-bar rfn-eshadow

isearch easymenu timer select scroll-bar mouse jit-lock font-lock syntax

font-core term/tty-colors frame minibuffer nadvice seq simple cl-generic

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theme-loaddefs faces cus-face macroexp files window text-properties

overlay sha1 md5 base64 format env code-pages mule custom widget keymap

hashtable-print-readable backquote threads dbusbind inotify lcms2

dynamic-setting system-font-setting font-render-setting cairo

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native-compile emacs)

Memory information:

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