auctex-latexmk cannot be checked out by github fetcher because of non-existent directory .config/emacs/.cache/quelpa/build/

[bryce-carson]

Description

Recently I opened #16647, which described an issue caused by package updates
affecting magit. Another user experiencing the issue, who did not use the same
work-around as I did, suggested updating packages again. I thought to do that,
and begin keeping my packages up-to-date (I usually let them get quite stale).

Without removing the work-around I described---which shouldn't affect anything
because it is a valid user configuration option regardless---I updated my Emacs
packages. The message seen in [reproduction-guide] was then observed.

Reproduction guide 🪲

• Start Emacs
• SPC f e U (configuration-layer/update-packages)

Observed behaviour: 👀 💔
The following message is displayed in Messages:

Fetcher: github
Source: smile13241324/auctex-latexmk

condition-case: Failed to checkout ‘auctex-latexmk’: ‘Can’t run process in non-existent directory: /home/bryce/.config/emacs/.cache/quelpa/build/’

Expected behaviour: ❤️ 😄 auctex-latexmk should not fail to checkout
due to a non-existent directory; the directory, if required, should be created
(especially inside the Spacemacs cache directory).

System Info 💻

• OS: gnu/linux
• Emacs: 29.4
• Spacemacs: 0.999.0
• Spacemacs branch: develop (rev. 60dcd8c)
• Graphic display: t
• Running in daemon: nil
• Distribution: spacemacs
• Editing style: vim
• Completion: helm
• Layers:

(csv html sql windows-scripts
     (python :variables python-format-on-save t)
     meson yaml
     (auto-completion :variables auto-completion-idle-delay 0.7 auto-completion-minimum-prefix-length 0 auto-completion-enable-snippets-in-popup t auto-completion-enable-help-tooltip t)
     emacs-lisp common-lisp
     (git :packages magit magit-section evil-collection evil-surround git-timemachine transient)
     themes-megapack helm
     (ess :variables ess-assign-key "\255" ess-r-backend nil)
     markdown info
     (java :variables java-backend 'lsp)
     (latex :variables latex-view-pdf-in-split-window t latex-refresh-preview t latex-build-engine 'luatex)
     org javascript
     (shell :variables shell-default-height 30 shell-default-position 'bottom shell-default-shell 'vterm)
     syntax-checking)

• System configuration features: ACL CAIRO DBUS FREETYPE GIF GLIB GMP GNUTLS GSETTINGS HARFBUZZ JPEG JSON LIBOTF LIBSELINUX LIBSYSTEMD LIBXML2 M17N_FLT MODULES NATIVE_COMP NOTIFY INOTIFY PDUMPER PNG RSVG SECCOMP SOUND SQLITE3 THREADS TIFF TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS TREE_SITTER WEBP X11 XDBE XIM XINPUT2 XPM XWIDGETS GTK3 ZLIB

Backtrace 🐾

NOT APPLICABLE

[bryce-carson]

Manually creating the directory allows package upgrade to continue, without any apparent error.