macOS installation thinks I am under linux

[moritzschaefer]

Description

I installed d12frosted/emacs-plus/emacs-plus@29, and cloned spacemacs to .emacs.d (develop branch). However, when starting, I can only select whether I want the "vim" or "emacs" keybindings and afterwards it crashes with the error

(Creating directory. Operation not supported /home/moritz)

The obvious reason being that under macOS, there is no /home (rather /Users).

Reproduction guide 🪲

• Start Emacs

Observed behaviour: 👀 💔

Warning (initialization): An error occurred while loading ‘/Users/moritz/.emacs.d/init.el’:

File error: Creating directory, Operation not supported, /home/moritz

Expected behaviour: ❤️ 😄
.spacemacs initializes as expected

[alexey0308]

Hi Moritz @moritzschaefer, is it happening with the default .spacemacs as well? Just to exclude the case that you might have some hand-coded paths in your config with "/home" in it.

You can also set (setq debug-on-error t) in the beginning of you init.el file and see what is the error source.

[moritzschaefer]

Thanks, it was due to .spacemacs.env! I got heavily confused because the error arose from init.el (instead of my .spacemacs.d config).