Re: Possibly defaulting native-compile-target-directory to XDG_CACHE_HOME/...

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org>
> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:08:37 -0600
> 
> 
> We're still trying to resolve some native compilation related crashes in
> Debian in the hope that we'll be able to have 28 in the next stable
> release --with-native-compilation.  (Stage one of the freeze begins on
> Jan 12.)
> 
> One remaining issue is that emacs crashes when HOME=/nope in some of our
> test suites and perhapssome other packaging or install-related
> activities.  For example: https://bugs.debian.org/1021842
> 
> (To refresh, Debian policies require packages not to write outside of a
>  few specified locations in certain situations, e.g. package builds, and
>  HOME is not one of the specified locations.)
> 
> I can't recall from previous discussions whether that crash would be
> considered a bug, or whether emacs just requires a writable cache dir
> now (which is fine if so).

The latter, AFAIU.