Re: master c622627: * Clean-up temporary eln test-suite directory when exiting (bug#48060)

[Andrea Corallo]

Andrea Corallo via "Emacs development discussions."
<emacs-devel@gnu.org> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> From: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
>>> Cc: michael.albinus@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>> Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2021 19:45:09 +0000
>>> 
>>> > Or maybe we should have test/eln-cache/ and put the files there,
>>> > without creating a new directory each time.  Or even just deposit
>>> > these files in the directory where the test runs, like we'd do with
>>> > *.elc files.
>>> >
>>> > WDYT?
>>> 
>>> Of the two options I'd prefer the first so we don't have to modify the
>>> mechanism to locate the eln files.
>>
>> The first option that you prefer being to have test/eln-cache/
>> directory?
>
> Yes that would be my preference.

That said this could help in the file clean-up side of the problem, but
IIUC the complain of this thread is the dependency Makefile ->
stratup.el.

Than the real question is how should Emacs understand that is being used
for a testsuite run so it can use "test/eln-cache/" without any
dependency Makefile -> Emacs?

  Andrea